ATR: Corteva's 'Snitch Line', Chinese Bioterror Plot Exposed, and Game Wardens Trespassing

This week's episode examines three major agricultural controversies shaking the industry. Host Vance Crowe and guest Kenny Bergmann analyze Corteva's aggressive enforcement letter threatening farmers who use generic herbicides on GMO crops, including their promotion of an anonymous "tip line" that has producers up in arms. Crowe and Bergmann then investigate the federal charges against two Chinese nationals caught smuggling Fusarium graminearum—a crop-destroying fungal pathogen classified as a potential bioterrorism weapon—into the US through Detroit airport, raising questions about agricultural security and foreign interference. Finally, they explore a constitutional lawsuit in Alabama where landowners are challenging game wardens' authority to conduct warrantless searches on private property, a practice affecting 96% of all private land in America under the controversial "open fields" doctrine. Kenny Bergmann is Executive Vice President of S&H Farm Supply and Chairman of the Board of FCS Financial, serving members since 2010. He operates 500 owned acres and rents an additional 717 acres in Missouri, raising alfalfa, grass hay, wheat, fescue seed and oats, along with a 200-head cow/calf operation and backgrounding up to 150 head. Bergmann brings his dual perspective as both a farmer and agricultural business executive dealing with supply chain and financial issues facing producers today.