Several major regulatory challenges have affected growers throughout the United States this year, between the EPA’s decision to cancel the registration of Bayer’s insecticide flubendiamide to the latest controversy surrounding Atrazine. Jim McVaney, Senior Director of Federal Regulations and Policy for Bayer, was on hand during the 2016 Farm Progress Show to discuss the major regulatory issues affecting agriculture today and the ways that Bayer is working in Washington to protect growers and the resources that are important to them.

“I think there is a void with understanding these regulations and their impact on much of agriculture in the United States within the Forest Services as well as within the EPA, these agencies are not as well acquainted with the day to day challenges faced by farmers as the USDA is,” he said in an interview during Farm Progress Show.

McVaney emphasized the importance of pursuing regular interaction with regulators at the EPA, as well as the absolute necessity of all sectors and businesses within agriculture sticking together and acting as allies when fighting regulatory pressures.

“It’s important for the entire agriculture industry to stick together, particularly as we’re coming to the end of an administration,” he said. “There’s always the risk of those midnight regulations coming out that have been sidelined for a while because they’re a little too hairy to do in the middle of an administration, so we’re expecting some challenging rules to potentially come down still.”

Learn more in Cindy’s full interview with McVaney here:
Interview with Jim McVaney, Bayer

View and download photos from the event here: 2016 Farm Progress Show Photo Album