News from the frontlines

Conversations surrounding recent supply shortages are top of mind for retailers and growers with limited explanation of how we arrived in such a dismal state. The ongoing global supply-chain challenges are complex, affecting the crop protection industry and beyond. While high-volume products like glyphosate, glufosinate, and S-metolachlor command headline news, the current challenge is far broader-reaching with some of the smaller agronomically significant molecules delivering the greatest surprises.  Supply instability and price increases have been attributed to the pandemic, but a series of three progressive events landed us in the challenge we now face.