A coalition of ag groups is urging the 9th Circuit Court to reject efforts to invalidate EPA’s existing stocks order for three dicamba herbicides.

The groups have filed an amicus brief with the court

supporting EPA’s position that farmers should be allowed to use the herbicides

this growing season. They say there could be “catastrophic consequences” for

farmers if the continued use of dicamba is disallowed.

“Immediately banning use of existing stocks of Xtendimax,

Engenia, and FeXapan would financially devastate America’s soybean and cotton

growers, who have invested an estimated $4.28 billion in seed and hundreds of

millions on herbicides,” the groups said in a news release.

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