Farm Bill Survey: Atrazine

USDA's Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP) requests your input to inform our response to a recent EPA amended atrazine interim decision for registration review that includes ecological mitigation measures. You can learn more about the decision on the Regulations.gov site here. If you are or have been involved in corn and/or sorghum production in the past three years and would like to participate in this important data collection, please click on this survey link.  

What is this survey about? EPA recently proposed a picklist of conservation measures to add to atrazine labels. Your input will give valuable information about mitigation and conservation practice options on corn and sorghum acres and inform OPMP’s input to EPA. Who we’d like to hear from: If you are involved in or have experience relevant to corn (field or sweet) and sorghum production in the past three years, we would greatly appreciate your participation in the survey. You do not need to have experience using atrazine on corn and/or sorghum to take this survey. The survey takes about 10-15 minutes and can be saved and re-entered if you are interrupted while responding. Please respond by July 31st, 2022, for your voice to be counted. 

Why your input matters:  It’s in everyone’s interest for regulators to understand what practices growers already implement and what practices are most compatible with their operations. Your responses help inform regulators and USDA about what options are most workable for farmers and why. A previous example of this was our outreach last year on malathion use in vegetables. We will soon be sending a fact sheet about that effort, but please contact us if you have questions.

To participate in this important data collection, please click on this survey link: 

https://usdaopmp.gov1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_agW8JjsVXqR4jjg