Ag groups are applauding a circuit court ruling that vacates a rule restricting the use of a commonly used pesticide.

Minnesota Soybean Growers Association president Bob Worth tells Brownfield the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the EPA’s ban on chlorpyrifos.

“There are other products, but they just don’t work nearly as good as this. So this is really good news for us as farmers.”

American Farm Bureau president Zippy Duvall says the decision sends a message to EPA that it must use sound science when drafting rules.

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