American seed genetics are facing a serious threat — and the time to pay attention is now.
Behind the scenes, we've been working on something we believe will shape the future of the American seed industry: the launch of the American Seed Innovation & Growth Alliance (ASIGA): a coalition formed to challenge legislative changes scheduled to take effect in November 2026.
We deliberately chose not to raise alarm bells in your inbox until there was something real to stand behind. Now there is.
What this fight is — and what it isn't. We want to be clear about how ASIGA is positioned, because framing matters in Washington.
ASIGA's political case rests on three pillars:
Innovation.
Genetic diversity.
American leadership.
The legislation due to take effect in November 2026 threatens all three. It risks narrowing the genetic pool US breeders can legally work with, slowing the pace of innovation that has helped put American seed companies at the front of a global industry, and ceding ground to overseas competitors who will be ready to fill the gap.
ASIGA is a broad coalition, including voices from industrial hemp, the seed genetics industry and home-grow. Seedsman remains fully behind our community and the right to preserve access, choice and plant knowledge — but the case being made on the Hill is about protecting an American industry, American jobs and American scientific leadership.
That is the case that can win votes. And that is the case ASIGA is built around.
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What we've been doing.
For months, work has been happening quietly, persistently, and at a serious level in Washington.
ASIGA's lobbying and communications group brings together experienced hemp policy advocates, former USDA officials and seasoned operators who understand how the Hill works.
The work is not glamorous: briefings, redrafts, relationship-building and the slow grind of getting the right facts in front of the right people.
But it is the work that moves the needle on legislation of this scale.
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