After decades of litigation, EPA announced a plan to pull chlorpyrifos off the market last week.
 
If you missed the breaking news story, see it here: . But if you saw it and still have questions -- When does the ban start? What products are affected? Is it final? -- you're in the right place.
 
Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide better known to farmers and pesticide applicators by various brand names such as Lorsban and Vulcan. It was a popular insecticide option for farmers for many years, particularly in the fight against soybean aphids. Its use has waned in the past decade, but it remained an option for growers fighting twospotted spider mites in beans, rootworm in corn, aphids in wheat and cutworms and plant bugs in cotton. It's also used in alfalfa and several fruit and vegetable crops.
 
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