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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

postheadericon The Ag Minute: EPA Strikes at Crop Protection Tool for Farmers

WASHINGTON â€" This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, discusses how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated an unprecedented re-review of a critically important pesticide, which threatens its continued availability to farmers and ranchers. Atrazine is a pesticide that has been used safely and effectively for more than 50 years. Banning the use of atrazine could cost between 21,000 and 48,000 jobs from corn production losses alone, accor! ding to University of Chicago economist Don L. Coursey.

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