CPDA
The Council of Producers & Distributors of Agrotechnology is the premier advocate for agricultural adjuvant and inert ingredient suppliers. CPDA also provides legislative and regulatory support to formulators, distributors and manufacturers of post patent pesticide products and biorationals.
CPDA members produce and sell tank-mix adjuvants, inert ingredients, pesticides and other agrotechnology products across the United States and range in size from small businesses to large, publicly traded companies. Approximately 80% of the inert ingredients used in agricultural production products throughout the U.S. are provided by CPDA members.
Chartered in 1987, CPDA’s priorities and activities continue to be member-driven and focused on the issues that impact their operations. Through representation on CPDA’s Board of Directors, large and small companies share an equal voice in the development of positions, strategies and priorities adopted by the Council.
CPDA provides comprehensive legislative and regulatory advocacy for the agrotechnology industry by leading efforts to inform and influence legislation and regulations that impact members. Members provide input on advocacy direction via Board and committee participation, and receive timely information via CPDA communications.
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CPDA wrapped up its very successful 2019 Summer Conference & Annual Meeting, held August 19-21 at the Hyatt Centric Park City in Park City, Utah – a beautiful resort town nestled in the scenic Wasatch Mountains. The conference featured a comprehensive speakers program focusing on issues crucial to the business operations of companies in the…
CPDA has written to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting that the Department consider an extension of the final planting dates for insured crops in those states where farmers have experienced the devastating impacts of the natural disasters that have severely disrupted the 2019 growing season. In its June 7, 2019 letter sent to the Secretary,…
CPDA’s 2019 Adjuvants & Inerts Conference, “Developing Trends and Emerging Needs of the Agrotechnology Industry,” held April 29-May 1 at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Denver, Colorado, featured a comprehensive and informative speakers program that covered a wide variety of topics of key importance to the agrotechnology industry. This year’s conference drew an audience of…
CPDA and other members of the PRIA Industry Coalition attended the EPA PRIA Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting held at the Agency’s Office of Pesticide Programs headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on March 13, 2019. The meeting included OPP leadership from all three registering divisions (RD, AD and BPPD). EPA personnel gave a brief summary of the events…
CPDA has collaborated with CLA, RISE and the Biological Products Industry Association (BPIA) in submitting joint industry comments to EPA on March 21, 2019 in response to a petition filed by the Center for Food Safety (CFS). The CFS petition requests that the Agency revise its testing requirements for pesticides prior to registration. Specifically, CFS…
On March 8, 2019, President Trump signed into law S. 483, the “Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2018” (PRIA 4). The measure, which provides a long-term reauthorization of PRIA, was introduced in the Senate on February 13, 2019 as a stand-alone bill and was adopted in that chamber by voice vote on February 14th.…
In a significant win for CPDA, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) has issued a memorandum, dated December 11, 2018, in which the Department addresses the concerns of the Council regarding WSDA’s proposed plan requiring spray adjuvant registrants to use a more specific chemical name in the Principal Functioning Agents (PFA) section of their…
On December 17, 2018 CPDA-Canada submitted comments in response to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) updated consultation that proposes additional changes to the Agreement for Data Protection under Section 66 of the Pest Control Products Act (PCPA), commonly referred to as the Ministerial Agreement for Data Protection. The Ministerial Agreement sets forth the procedures…
CPDA is the preeminent U.S.-based industry trade association supporting the interests of the agricultural adjuvants and inert ingredients industry, and manufacturers, formulators and distributors of post patent pesticides and other agrotechnology products through its robust legislative and regulatory affairs programs. The core of CPDA’s mission is built on the realization that issue priorities can differ…
The beautiful skyline of downtown Chicago was the backdrop of the 2018 CPDA Summer Conference & Annual Meeting. CPDA concluded its very successful 2018 Summer Conference & Annual Meeting held July 16-18 at the Omni Chicago Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The highlight of this year’s program was a comprehensive discussion of the “new” CPDA and…
