Chris Novak, CropLife America President & CEO

This week’s Open Mic guest is Chris Novak, President and CEO of CropLife America. With the dust still settling from the mid-term elections, officials with the crop protection industry have set their sights on the lame duck session of congress hopeful that Environmental Protection Agency funding and the  Pesticide Registration Improvement Renewal Act can see action by legislators. Novak discusses the regulatory bottleneck at EPA and its effect on the crop protection industry as well as new questions by environmentalists on the pesticide impact on Endangered Species. Novak says the industry is facing economic headwinds from higher energy and operating costs but expects to have products in place to meet farmer needs for the 2023 crop year.