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EPA Approves Transform (Sulfoxaflor) Exemption for Sorghum

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06/21/2019

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday it has granted emergency exemptions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) for use of sulfoxaflor on cotton and sorghum. The EPA first acknowledged this emergency exemption in 2014 and has approved the use of sulfoxaflor in grain sorghum each subsequent year. Emergency-use exemptions are effective in 2019 for use of sulfoxaflor in grain and forage sorghum in Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia as well as Tennessee for forage and syrup. National Sorghum Producers appreciates EPA’s approval of this year’s emergency-use request. However, we look forward to an eventual registration for sulfoxaflor on sorghum, so we have certainty that this tool is available in the future and can avoid the yearly emergency-use request process. Visit the NSP website to see the full press release.

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