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The Challenges Facing Agriculture, Going Into 2021

As most in-person events did during 2020, the annual Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) held its annual meeting during September as a virtual event. Although speakers weren’t able to impart their messages to an in-person audience, per usual, this didn’t lessen in any way the impact of what they said to attendees.
 
Chris Novak, President/CEO at CropLife America, conveyed a simple plea to virtual attendees at the 2020 MACA meeting: Agriculture has work yet to do!
 
“This is a critical time for our industry,” said Novak. “There are lots of challenges ahead.”
 
Among these challenges, Novak cited several that are likely to play a role in the agriculture’s fortunes over the next five years. This included addressing questions about supply chain stability, ethanol policy, trade instability, the overall health of the livestock industry, and, of course, the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
 
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