Agriculture your username 4 hours ago 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 costs.” According to the plaintiffs, the registration went beyond the EPA’s authority and is “arbitrary and capricious.”