IDOA Announces Permanent Dicamba Rules

By AgriNews|April 19, 2022

The Illinois Department of Agriculture announced April 14 permanent state-specific restrictions for dicamba use on soybeans, reports AgriNews. The permanent restrictions remained unchanged from the 2020 and 2021 growing seasons.

IDOA’s proposed administrative rules were published in the secretary of state’s Illinois Register last December, allowing for public comments during the first notice period.

In October 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had renewed the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act registrations for three dicamba pesticides for growing seasons 2021-2025.

Contrary to prior practice, EPA declared that the only way for states to add safety restrictions to these products is through Section 24(a) of FIFRA, which allows a state to add restrictions through its rulemaking process.

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