Two weeks ago, we informed you that the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a petition for a rehearing before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (Court of Appeals) about the decision directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to revoke all tolerances and cancel all registrations for chlorpyrifos within 60 days. Last week, CCM (along [...]
Interesting research In a recent article from the Citrus Industry Magazine, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher Lukasz Stelinski reported on the importance for Florida citrus growers to continue spraying for ACP even though they are infected with HLB. The reasoning behind this is that an infected tree can still yield [...]
Last Thursday, DPR hosted what is to be the first of a series of lectures about ACP/HLB. Jim Cranney, President of the California Citrus Quality Council, organized the lecture to feature talks given by Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell, Director of UC ANR’s Lindcove Research and Extension Center; James E. Adaskaveg, Professor and Plant Pathologist at UC [...]
CCM and 50 other Ag organizations from around the country forwarded a letter to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue and Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler this week urging them to initiate the process to appeal a 9th Circuit Panel decision to revoke tolerances and registrations for Chlorpyrifos. “This decision is unprecedented; no court has previously ordered [...]
CCM attended the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) hearing regarding the proposed DPR Regulation No. 18-001 related to Ground Water Protection Areas (GWPA). A GWPA is a one-square-mile section of land that is sensitive to the movement of pesticides. GWPAs can be established if any of the following are true: previous detections of pesticides [...]
Last week, California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) published its Air Monitoring Network Results for 2017 and found that chlorpyrifos monitored at four different sites throughout California never exceeded any screening level or regulatory target. However, CalEPA and DPR are currently allowing the Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air [...]
The July Board meeting is normally devoted to a review of ongoing issues and communications since most policies have been established in numerous areas. In addition to the dues, PAC, trade, and labor issues discussed elsewhere, the board agreed to a game plan addressing DPR’s non-scientific approach to further regulation on chlorpyrifos and a similar [...]
The San Joaquin Valley ACP/HLB Task Force is recommending growers with citrus blocks east and south of Bakersfield make a soil-applied imidacloprid treatment (Admire Pro, generic imidacloprid 2F or 4F, etc.) in the mid-August through mid-September period if at all possible. This is because the past several years has shown that a vast majority of the [...]
The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announced in a press release that DPR’s Air Monitoring Network found that all 36 pesticides monitored at four different sites never exceeded any screening level or regulatory target. Among the 36 pesticides monitored some included, chlorpyrifos, endosulfan, malathion, acephate, along with many others. The four sites that DPR used [...]
Last week, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and the Scientific Review Panel (SRP) concluded the risk assessment for chlorpyrifos. Final edits are being made and the report will be delivered to Director Brian Leahy for determination of chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant. This week, CCM staff has continued to stress the importance [...]
