Renewing Pesticide Licenses During the Pandemic
Anyone applying pesticides must be licensed, but those licenses expire every 3 years and renewing them in a COVID-19 world has been a challenge. Here’s how state agriculture regulators have revised their plans.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture had a great plan to renew pesticide application licenses on line.
“This year the pesticide testing program had to move to an online format, because we couldn’t test people in mass quantities like we’ve always done with the Illinois Department of Ag and the University of Illinois,” says Jean Payne, President of the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association. “So, the Department worked very hard to put online testing capability in place, for the first time ever.”
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The Illinois Department of Agriculture had a great plan to renew pesticide application licenses on line.
“This year the pesticide testing program had to move to an online format, because we couldn’t test people in mass quantities like we’ve always done with the Illinois Department of Ag and the University of Illinois,” says Jean Payne, President of the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association. “So, the Department worked very hard to put online testing capability in place, for the first time ever.”
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