On Friday, a panel of Ninth Circuit Court judges denied an emergency motion from environmental groups to force states to halt dicamba use and hold the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt.
"The decision is an important win for the EPA, which obeyed the Ninth Circuit's June 3 order to vacate three dicamba registrations but allowed farmers and commercial applicators to continue applying 'existing stocks' of XtendiMax, Engenia and FeXapan through July 31," Emily Unglesbee reports for DTN/The Progressive Farmer. "That means EPA's existing stocks provision still stands, and growers can continue using any stocks of those herbicides in their possession as of June 3, as long as they obey the former federal labels and any existing state regulations on dicamba use. Keep in mind that some states have already exceeded or are nearing dicamba cutoff dates."
The case centers around the EPA's reauthorization of dicamba in 2018, which expires in December. The court had ruled that the agency did not do its due diligence in recognizing the chemical's tendency to vaporize and drift to other fields, damaging crops that aren't genetically engineered to resist it. The EPA will likely reauthorize dicamba again in December.
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