The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday sowed seeds of uncertainty among growers across the nation as they issued an order to vacate the registration of three dicamba-based herbicides, including XtendiMax, FeXapan, and Engenia.
The Court, based in San Francisco, Calif., sided with plaintiffs in the case: the National Family Farm Coalition, Center for Food Safety, Center for Biological Diversity, and Pesticide Action Network North America. Judge William Fletcher wrote in the Court’s Opinion that the Environmental Protection Agency “substantially understated risks that it acknowledged and failed entirely to acknowledge other risks” associated with the products.
“In general, it ...