The Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of determining whether or not to re register Atrazine. A public comment period closed on Wednesday. The Nebraska Farm Bureau has filed comments in support of re registering Atrazine. National Affairs Coordinator Jordan Dux says if EPA fails to register the product, the cost to his state’s farmers will be astronomical.

He says Atrazine does not have a negative effect on the environment evidenced by the fact the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality determined that groundwater samples have shown the average atrazine concentration at 0.81 parts per million compared to EPA’s maximum contaminant level of 3 parts per million.

Dux says Atrazine is an important tool for Nebraska’s farmers.

Dux says Atrazine is one of the oldest and most studied crop protection product on the market having first been registered for use in the United States in 1958.