When asked about the risks facing their farmer-members, CHS Executive Vice President, Enterprise Customer Development, Gary Halvorson, cited the dynamic shifts in the crop protection business. “Some tariff-driven, some supply and demand-driven, and some policy-driven on the active ingredients and what’s available,” Halvorson told RRFN. “There’s a push by Make America Healthy Again, a push by the EPA, and a push by a lot of factors. All of that is fine. It’s our job is to manage price risk and inventory risk to help the farmer get the products they need so they can do a good job stewarding their crop. We’ve had all those same factors in different names and formats in the past. Now it seems like a confluence of multiple things at once.” Volatility has become the norm in agriculture, making it harder to hit a home run. “Control the controllables and make sure you don’t take too big of a bite and any one time because of the outside factors that we don’t have mitigation for.” Listen to the full interview.
