A settlement between the Environmental Protection Services and the Center for Biological Diversity in the Ninth Circuit Court resulted in a proposed framework for herbicide use. North Dakota Department of Agriculture Pesticide and Fertilizer Division Director Eric Delzer says the EPA was also ordered to do a full risk assessment review on organic phosphate pesticides, like chlorpyrifos. “Following the herbicide strategy, they’re going to publish a rodenticide strategy, a fungicide strategy, and an insecticide strategy.” Delzer says all of these strategies need to be implemented by 2027 and could affect every crop protection product. “Our biggest concerns is how this affects every pesticide in use and we won’t know until the labels start coming out.”
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