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Dicamba rules in effect for growing season
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Perry Galloway holds a sign reading “Farmers Need Dicamba” at his farm. The use of the herbicide has pitted farmers against each other as some states put more prohibitions on its use.Nicholas Kamm | AFP via Getty Images
The Illinois Department of Agriculture has released emergency administrative rules detailing additional restrictions for dicamba application on soybeans for the 2021 growing season.
In October, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had renewed the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act registrations for three dicamba pesticides for growing seasons 2021-2025. Contrary to prior practice, the EPA declared that the only way for states to add safety restrictions to these products is through Section 24(a) of the act, which allows a state to add restrictions through its rule-making process.
On Oct. 27, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved registrations for two dicamba products, XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology and Engenia Herbicide, and extended the registration of Tavium Plus VaporGrip
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IDOA restated the new federal label requirements for these products that include:
Use of an approved pH-buffering agent, also known as a volatility reduction agent, be tank mixed with dicamba products prior to all applications
Requiring a downwind buffer of 240, which expands to 310 feet in areas where listed endangered species are located.
Additional recordkeeping items for farmers.
The federal label also includes a cutoff date of June 30 for application of these products on soybeans. However, IDOA is using its authority under Section 24(a) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and relevant provisions of the Illinois Pesticide Act to impose a cutoff date of June 2