Steve Smith, "RE: Citizen's Petition to Classify Pesticides with the Active Ingredient Dicamba as Restricted Use," Save Our Crops Coalition Petition to the EPA, May 24, 2016. SUMMARY: Non-target plant damage associated with herbicide spray drift and volatilization is a…
Association of American Pesticide Control Operators," 2005 Pesticide Drift Enforcement Survey," 2005. SUMMARY: Reports on the results from 2002 and 2003 farmer surveys, including on pesticide drift damage. FULL TEXT
Center for Food Safety, "Summary of Center for Food Safety’s Science Comments to EPA on Monsanto’s Request to Register Dicamba Herbicide for Use on Monsanto’s Dicamba-Resistant MON 87708 Soybean," September 21, 2012. SUMMARY: In brief, the introduction of MON 87708 would trigger a…
Steve Smith, Comment of the Save Our Crops Coalition, RE: Notice of Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities; Pesticide Products; Receipt of Applications to Register New Uses, Docket Nos. EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0841-0001, EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0215-0002,…
Steve Smith, "Deployment of Dicamba-resistant soybeans and what it will mean to canned and frozen food processors and specialty crop growers in the Midwest," Testimony before Congress, Domestic Policy Subcommittee of Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, September 30, 2010. SUMMARY: Steve Smith, the Director…
Environmental Protection Agency, "Dicamba (3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid); Pesticide Tolerance," 40 CFR Part 180, Federal Register, January 6, 1999, Vol. 64, No. 3. SUMMARY: Updates tolerances for dicamba. FULL TEXT
Environmental Protection Agency, "Reassessed Group 2 Tolerances by Pesticide," August 4, 1999. SUMMARY: Reassessed tolerances for pesticides following the passage of the FQPA. FULL TEXT
Environmental Protection Agency, 40 CFR Parts 180, 185, and 186, "Consolidation of Certain Food and Feed Additive Tolerance Regulations," Federal Register, Vol. 65, No. 101, May 24, 2000. SUMMARY: The Office of Pesticide Programs is transferring certain of the pesticide food and feed…
Benbrook Consulting Services, Use of Dicamba on Crops as Surveyed by the National Agricultural Statistics Services (NASS), 2016. SUMMARY: Table detailing NASS reports of dicamba use (percent of total crop) and application rates. FULL TEXT
Environmental Protection Agency, "Dicamba; Pesticide Tolerances," Federal Register, 40 CFR Part 180, December 8, 2016. SUMMARY: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of dicamba in or on cotton, gin byproducts; cotton, undelinted seed; soybean, forage; and soybean, hay. Monsanto Company requested…