EPA Rolls Out 5 Year Dicamba Registration
By Jacqui Fatka, Farm Progress
After a circuit court halted the use of dicamba this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency released plans late Tuesday to allow a five-year registration for the use of dicamba on cotton and soybeans, with additional restrictions pertaining to buffer agents, application cutoff dates and downwind buffers.
In a call with media, EPA Administration Andrew Wheeler said the registration, which will allow for use through the 2025 growing season, will provide “certainty to growers as they make purchasing decisions” and takes into account new scientific information as well as comments from stakeholder groups.