Source: AGDAILY, 2/17/21


The only things you can count on in life are death and taxes, as the old adage warns. Unless you’re a farmer. Then you can look forward to death, taxes, and pests. Whether those pests are weeds, insects, worms, or fungi, they can wreak havoc on crops. So crop-protection tools, including pesticides, are pretty darn important. They literally make the difference between food for the table and a failed harvest. The way these important tools are regulated is a big deal, too. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new “biological evaluation” makes market access for these trusted pesticides harder — and threatens to remove them entirely.

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