Given the new information from the 2021 growing season, the EPA is trying to decide whether over-the-top dicamba applications can be used in a manner that doesn’t put non-target crops, plants or species at risk. According to a press release and memorandum, the agency received 3,500 dicamba-related incident reports this year. One million acres of non-dicamba-tolerant soybean crops were allegedly damaged by off-target movements of dicamba. The EPA is evaluating all of their options to address future dicamba-related incidents and the regulatory tools that could be used to address the severity of the alleged incidents are not likely to be fully implemented by the 2022 growing season, due to statutory processes. If states want to further restrict or narrow the over-the-top use of dicamba, the EPA will work with them. The agency also not likely to approve Section 24c requests under FIFRA to register additional uses of federally registered over-the-top dicamba products to meet special local needs.
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