IFCA Releases Suggestions To EPA On Dicamba Applications On Soybeans
The IFCA Board and staff has been very engaged all year on the dicamba issue. We talk with the IDA every week regarding the misuse complaints and the IDA investigations, and we recently met with all the pesticide manufacturers to discuss the best path forward given the high number of complaints that farmers have filed with the IDA, the clear majority of which are dicamba symptoms on sensitive soybeans.
As of today, IDA has received 319 misuse complaints attributed to dicamba symptoms and the total number of pesticide misuse complaints is now at 500---a historic high and something that demands attention and leadership from the pesticide industry. Historically, total complaints to IDA have averaged 100-125 for nearly two decades (including the years when the RR soybean technology was introduced in the mid 1990's). A 400% increase in pesticide complaints is not a good thing for our industry no matter how you try to look at it. And when most of the complaints are coming from farmers, it is even more concerning.
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