An extension educator says chlorpyrifos for many specialty crop growers is the only control measure against certain crops and with EPA banning its use in 2022, there could be a shakeup in what they grow.
Ben Werling with Michigan State University tells Brownfield brassica root crops face several pests that bore into them. Chlorpyrifos is known to work into the soil and has provided protection for those crops.
“Nobody wants to eat a maggoty turnip, or radish or rutabaga,” he says.
