National Corn Growers Association
Bayer-Monsanto
The NGCA's May 2021 Podcast Interview with Brett Begemann, the COO of Bayer Crop Science (and a 35 year veteran (former VP) of Monsanto), began by describing their mission as giving farmers a "say... with key leaders who are shaping the future of agriculture."
Jon Doggett, the CEO of the National Corn Growers Association, conducted the interview, and minimized controversy surrounding Monsanto-Bayer's toxic polluting RoundUp herbicide as a "minor issue", proclaiming that "we (the NCGA) absolutely believe glyphosate is an essential tool for farmers to have" and thanking him with a "debt of gratitude" for "defending this chemical" - especially in the context of environmental opposition and efforts to greenwashing RoundUp with "carbon farming".
Bayer-Monsanto's COO used the platform to pontificate that "farmers are going to be able to rely on glyphosate and, in our case Roundup now and well into the future" and didn't pass miss the opportunity to greenwash the massive carbon emissions of Big Ag: "this industry of agriculture has done as much or more than any other industry to improve our carbon footprint over the past 50 years."[1]