Despite EPA's Green Light, Legal Challenges Remain Unresolved With Dicamba

By Emily Unglesbe,

DTN Contributor

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the agency’s long-awaited decision approving three dicamba herbicides for use over-the-top of dicamba-tolerant Xtend crops in 2021 and beyond.

On a Tuesday evening press call, Wheeler stated that EPA has granted five-year registrations to two canceled dicamba herbicides — XtendiMax and Engenia — as well as a re-registered dicamba herbicide, Tavium. All three now require a nationwide June 30 cutoff date for use in soybeans and a July 30 cutoff date for use in cotton, regardless of growth stage. The agency also announced it is limiting states’ ability to add further restrictions to the federal labels.

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