The Environmental Protection Agency’s “complex framework" for complying with EPA’s draft herbicide strategy to mitigate risks to endangered species would “impose enormous new regulatory burdens and uncertainties on nearly every agricultural herbicide user in the contiguous lower 48 states,” says a letter to EPA signed by more than 1,500 producers.
 
The letter says producers and applicators may have difficulty in determining if their land falls under regulation or compliance obligations.  The letter identifies producers’ environmental concerns if herbicides are limited, including the inability to continue to use reduced tillage and cover crops.