The Environmental Protection Agency this week gave registration approval for five years to two dicamba products and extension for a third. American Soybean Association Vice President and Valley Springs, South Dakota farmer Kevin Scott says ASA has been working with the Agency for this for some time and is pleased to see it go forward despite a brief holdup in one of the courts.
He says the two getting five year approval, Extendimax and Engenia are both important weed control tools for farmers as is Tavium which received an extension.
Scott says growers will have to work with the controls the EPA put in that made these products available. He says one concern is with the boundary control requirement of a downwind buffer of 240 feet and 310 feet where listed species are located.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in announcing the approval of the registrations for dicamba said the approval means farmers now have the certainty they need to make their plans for the 2021 growing season.
