Southern Crop Production Association (SCPA) is a regional trade association founded in 1954 that represents manufacturers, formulators, distributors, and retailers of crop protection and agricultural input products across sixteen Southern states. The organization serves as a unified voice for the crop production industry, advocating at state and federal levels on behalf of companies involved in pesticides, seeds, biotechnology, seed treatments, biologics, and related agricultural technologies.
Crop protection regulation, pesticide policy, biotechnology and seed technology policy, fertilizer and adjuvant regulation, agricultural innovation, and state and federal legislative and regulatory advocacy affecting agricultural inputs and crop production in the Southern United States.
Primarily funded through member company contributions and program service revenue from industry events and activities.
Member companies include major agricultural input and crop protection firms such as Bayer Crop Science, BASF, Amvac, Albaugh Inc., and Southern States Cooperative; affiliated with regional and national agricultural trade groups including CropLife America and the Agricultural Retailers Association.
Non-profit trade association
