EPA Challenges for Dicamba and New Supply Chain Creation
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**A new wheat seed hybrid represents one of the first major innovations for the crop in decades.
Corteva unveiled the drought-resistant wheat seed that could be “revolutionary” in advancing more climate-resilient hybrids.
The new proprietary hybrid has the potential to increase yields by 10% while using the same amount of land and resources.
The non-GMO technology can also provide yields 20% above competitors in drought.
**The EPA is facing renewed pressure to deny re-registration of the controversial weedkiller dicamba.
Three Senate Democrats are urging the EPA to deny re-registering of the herbicide, which was pulled from the market earlier this year, saying the weedkiller cannot be used without adverse effects.
In a letter, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch, wrote re-registering dicamba with tighter restrictions, as in the past, has not mitigated damage.
**Facing the threat of more tariffs on Chinese goods, companies could create supply chains just to export to America.
Creating a separate supply chain for the U.S. market would mean eliminating Chinese components for products bound for the U.S.
Mary Lovely, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for
International Economics, says, “If the U.S. says, ‘no Chinese content, no matter the good, the product, whether
there’s a national security implication or not,’ you’re going to see supply chains created at a higher expense.
