SOCC Petitions EPA To Establish New Dicamba Tolerance Levels
Today, the Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC) petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish dicamba residue tolerances for a broad range of food crops. “These food crops are...
View ArticleSOCC Opposes New Uses of Dicamba and Residue Tolerances For Monsanto’s...
Today, the Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC) submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing new uses of dicamba and residue tolerances for dicamba tolerant crops until effective...
View ArticleUSDA to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Dicamba Tolerant Crops
Today, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to consider the environmental impacts of crops genetically engineered for...
View ArticleSOCC Requests USDA Expand the Scope of Dicamba Inquiry
Today, the Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC) filed comments requesting the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) broaden the scope of an environmental impact statement to include options to address...
View ArticleSOCC Sets Record Straight Regarding 2,4-D
Today, the Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC) sent a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, explaining the coalition remains concerned regarding the direction of USDA’s proposed...
View ArticleSOCC Petitions EPA to Restrict the Use of Dicamba
Today, the Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC) petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a classification review to determine whether pesticides that contain the active ingredient...
View ArticleSOCC Pens Open Letter to Chairman of Monsanto
Below is the open letter Steve Smith, Chairman of the Save Our Crops Coalition sent to Hugh Grant, Chairman and CEO of the Monsanto Company on August 9, 2016: Dear Mr. Hugh Grant, When Monsanto’s Xtend...
View ArticleAn Insiders Update on the Dicamba Drift Trials
Steve Smith, Save Our Crops Coalition Chairman One down…dozens more to go as the trials associated with dicamba are just beginning. For those of you who have been watching and reading the news about...
View ArticleBreaking Dicamba News
Could the end really be in sight? Yesterday, June 3rd, the Ninth District Court vacated the 2018 Dicamba registration. I’ve attached the full ruling, but here is an excerpt: The EPA substantially...
View ArticleSOCC Update
By Steve Smith, Chairman, Save Our Crops Coalition Many times in life we tend to place “markers” to be able to look back and see where we’ve come from. Today marks one of those occasions where it is...
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