Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 10/12/21


In field days and Extension posts, North Carolina State University Peanut Specialist David Jordan has urged farmers who have stocks of the insecticide chlorpyrifos — or Lorsban — to return these supplies to their distributors and make sure they don’t use the compound on their peanut crops in 2022. On Aug. 18, EPA announced it would ban chlorpyrifos, or Lorsban, from all food crops. “Lorsban is now essentially off the market. I know sometimes farmers buy up product when they think it’s going to be lost under the assumption they can use up existing stocks of product. Don’t do that on Lorsban,” Jordan cautioned.

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