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OSHA issued a memorandum detailing expanded temporary enforcement guidance on respiratory protection fit-testing for N95 masks in all industries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is a new FMCSA emergency waiver that will help new CDL drivers seeking a Class A CDL. The seasonal drivers – Restricted Ag CDL – are already exempt from the knowledge and skills tests.

On the latest AgPro podcast, Richard Gupton, Senior Vice President of Public Policy at ARA details what ag retailers need to know to keep their businesses running as smoothly as possible during this public health crisis

“ARA will continue to defend glyphosate in order to ensure the product’s availability in the future. We have long supported decisions based on sound science, and that has been the case with glyphosate,” Daren Coppock.

In reaction to the ruling and its subsequent mandate, statements from associations and retail outlets detailed that effective immediately, none of the three products would be used, sold or distributed.

A pioneer in the fluid fertilizer industry, in 1953 Glen Brandt founded the business that could become Brandt Consolidated. Brandt died on June 7 at the age of 94.

Today on Farm Journal Live, sorting through the changing landscape for dicamba with Richard Gupton of the Ag Retailers Association and Dr. Bob Hartzler of Iowa State University.

If this precedent is allowed to stand and become a common procedure, courts rather than EPA will take over the role of regulating pesticide registrations.

On Monday, a U.S. District Court Judge handed down a decision preventing the State of California from requiring Prop 65 “known to cause cancer” labels on glyphosate products.

Paraquat is a non-selective weed control commonly used for burndown applications, and it’s effective on resistant weed species such as ragweed and Palmer Amaranth.