Most Active Ingredients Sourced Overseas

There’s one category that will be impacted by tariff increases that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention and that’s the active ingredients in crop protection products used on the farm. NDSU Extension agricultural finance specialist Bryon Parman says most of these AI’s come from overseas. “For instance, 58 percent of the 2,4-D sourced in 2022 came from China, that is quite a huge amount of a herbicide that we use a whole lot; Atrazine, 100 percent sourced from China; Dicamba, 55 percent sourced from China, 40 percent from India; Glyphosate, 98 percent coming from China in 2022.”