News — In August, the EPA released the final Herbicide Strategy to identify and mitigate potential herbicide runoff/erosion/drift to avoid harming ESA-listed species. Updates to herbicide labels will require applicators to reference the EPA's website to determine whether the fields are within listed species' Pesticide Use Limitation Areas.
Weed scientists and herbicide experts and recently collaborated on a for explaining the changes and how they could impact farmers and herbicide applicators. Chism chairs the for the Weed Science Society of America. Hager is a professor and faculty specialist in the , part of the at the .
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Aaron Hager
Professor and Faculty Extension Specialist
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign