Agri-Pulse reports that the head of USDA’s Office of Pest Management Policy does not believe EPA can reapprove over-the-top uses of dicamba in time for the 2025 growing season. “I cannot envision a path by which EPA would actually be able to do it,” Kimberly Nesci said at the Sweetener Symposium.

 

EPA has stated that under its timeline for approving “new uses” under the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, it would need up until late 2025 to review and make a decision on three applications for dicamba from Bayer, BASF and Syngenta.