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Modern Ag Alliance is a Bayer lobbying and PR group

The Modern Ag Alliance, launched by Bayer in 2024, enables the company to lobby and campaign through an entity that looks like a coalition of farm organizations, not a single giant chemical corporation. 

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Karolina Corin

Pamela Ferdinand

Natasha Gilbert

Lewis Kamb

Stacy Malkan

Hana Mensendiek

Becky Morrison

Gary Ruskin

Sainath Suryanarayanan

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