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BASF Corporation, Bayer Cropscience LP, and Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, which are intervenor defendants in a D.C. District Court lawsuit regarding the herbicide dicamba, filed separate answers on Tuesday to the plaintiffs’ amended complaint.
The amended complaint, filed by two agricultural trade associations the American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers Inc. against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on April 27, reiterated the plaintiffs’ claims that the herbicide dicamba is a “critical tool” used by farmers and that the plaintiffs and their members rely on dicamba and crops engineered to withstand the herbicide.
They alleged that the added “significantly more stringent” requirements for applying dicamba products in the EPA’s recent re-registration of the herbicide “impose growing restrictions and disrupt growing seasons which will diminish crop yields, cut productivity, and drive up operational co
Agriculture
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April 29, 2021
After the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to dismiss two counts of the farm trade associations’ claims in their four-count complaint earlier this month, the American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers Inc. filed an amended complaint in the District of Columbia District Court. The lawsuit concerns the associations’ challenge to the EPA’s October 2020 registration of the herbicide dicamba.
According to Tuesday’s filing, “some aspects of the registration decision are problematic for Growers, who depend on reasonable, consistent access to dicamba for use on [dicamba-tolerant] soybeans and cotton.” The original complaint challenged the EPA’s application restrictions, Endangered Species Act (ESA) buffers, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) buffers, and sought an order judicially validating the ESA’s “no effect” findings on certain ESA listed species and critical habitat.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asked the District of Columbia District Court on Tuesday to dismiss two counts of a four-count complaint against its registration of the Dicamba herbicide; specifically, Count 2, purporting that the Endangered Species Act (ESA) buffer zones required in the registration violate the Administrative Procedure Act, and Count 4 relating to the EPA’s determination that Dicamba use would have “no effect” on endangered species or their habitats.
In its filing, the EPA argued that Count 2 regarding ESA Buffers should be dismissed because the plaintiffs, the American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers Inc., did not follow the proper procedures to file a complaint under the ESA by neglecting to provide 60-day notice. The defendant explained that the plaintiffs “mistakenly believe that certain 57 – to 310-foot buffer zones, measured from the edge of agricultural fields inward, which EPA incl
Crop Insurance Seminar scheduled for Feb. 16
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A virtual Cotton Crop Insurance Seminar is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
The seminar will be put on by Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. Attendees will learn of the options that are currently available to producers for the 2021 growing season through the Federal Crop Insurance Program.
Discussions will be had about how crop insurance can be used to complement or even be substituted for other USDA program options.
Once prospective attendees have registered for the seminar at https://plainscotton.org/cotton-crop-insurance-seminar/, they will receive the Zoom invitation to be used on the day of the event.