A coalition of 80 US agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to respect Mexico s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies specifically,
the phaseout of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year s Eve decree, Timothy A. Wise of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (ITAP) noted earlier this year. His administration sent an even stronger aftershock two weeks later, clarifying that the government would also
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80 groups blast US interference in Mexicoâs phaseout of glyphosate and GM corn
âWe call on Secretary Vilsack and Trade Representative Tai, as key leaders in the new administration, to respect Mexico s decision to protect both public health and the integrity of Mexican farming.â
A coalition of 80 U.S. agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to “respect Mexico’s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies”âspecifically, the phaseout of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn.
Happened in US 40 Years Ago : 87 US Farmers Unions Speak Out for Indian Farmers Protest Reagan era furthered the farm crisis through deliberate federal policy changes, with systematic erosion of parity prices and other deregulatory efforts.
Rakesh Tikait, president of Bharti Kisan Union, one of the largest farmers unions, is helped to get onto a stage upon his arrival to attend a Maha Panchayat or grand village council meeting as part of a farmers protest against farm laws at Kandela village in Jind district in the northern state of Haryana, India, February 3, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui.
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New Delhi: Citing damning examples of Reagan era policies that have led to irreparable damage to the US’s farmers, 87 farmers’ unions in the country have extended solidarity to the ongoing protests by farmers in India.
A strong argument in favor of growers in or out of court whatever the crop protection product.
It s no surprise the dicamba issue continues to find court time. The legal journey of the herbicide is far from over.
In October, the EPA approved registrations again for approved dicamba products growers have used to apply in-season and over-the-top of tolerant soybean and cotton crops.
Last summer, a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9
th Circuit vacated the 2018 labels for three dicamba products. EPA said the new labels adequately address that legal panel s concerns for ending the 2018 labels. The EPA s new labels for dicamba usage are good through 2025.
Four public interest groups filed a lawsuit challenging EPA s five-year registration for dicamba. Soy and cotton growers filed their own lawsuit in November actually challenging the extra restrictions required by EPA, while the latest case says EPA doesn’t go far enough in controlling drift concerns.
In October, EPA registered dicamba for use on dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The soy and cotton growers’ lawsuit claims some aspects of the registration decision including buffer requirements and application cutoffs are “problematic for growers, who depend on reasonable, consistent access to dicamba for use on DT soybeans and cotton.”