The Environmental Protection Agency has released its finalized version of the Endangered Species Act Herbicide Strategy, which has been met with concern from multiple agriculture groups. American Soybean Association President Josh Gackle said the agency made some concessions from the previous proposal, but, it is still far too limiting for pest control, giving farmers too few options.”What we’ve seen here in the first read of this is that a lot of that flexibility and some suggestions we had provided in order to make sure that it actually works on the farm and is affordable, just weren’t included.” Gackle feels the costs of compliance along with tighter restrictions will result in long-term losses on the farm “When you take certain tools away and have to rely on other things that are more expensive and harder to apply, all of that adds cost.” Gackle farms at Kulm, North Dakota.
