Monthly Archives: December 2015

Important Updates From Texas Extension Entomologists

Texas Department of Agriculture Requests Transform Use in 2016 Dr. Pat Porter reports: Dale R. Scott, Coordinator for Pesticide Product Evaluation and Registration, Texas Department of Agriculture, this week submitted a Section 18 (emergency exemption) request to EPA to allow Transform insecticide (sulfoxaflor) to be used on sorghum for sugarcane aphid control in 2016.  Read More Here EPA propose removal of chlorpyrifos tolerances Dr. Ed Bynum reports: EPA has a proposal to remove all residue tolerances for chlorpyrifos insecticide. EPA has now opened a 60 day period for… Read More →