American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) Chair Dave Armstrong, President and CEO of Sakata Seed America, sees a lot of opportunity for the seed industry right now.
“Conservation and cover crops is one area ASTA has been spending a lot of time on because that’s an emerging and rapidly evolving segment for the seed industry,” said Armstrong. “Treated seed is another issue that’s really important for the industry.”
He says the ASTA policy team is spending a lot of time right now working on the farm bill. “Making sure that we just protect the free movement of seed around the world, and also innovation – that the regulatory environment around innovation is not constraining some the really important techniques like gene editing.”
Listen to an interview with Armstrong from the ASTA Field Crop Seed Convention in Orlando this week and find more content from the event on AgNewsWire.
ASTA FCSC interview with Dave Armstrong, Sakata Seed America 9:02