EPA Reviews New Ways to Spray Old Pesticides
Published Date: 7/6/2026
Notice
Summary
The EPA just announced it’s reviewing new requests to use existing pesticides in new ways. If you’re a farmer, gardener, or pesticide maker, this could affect you! You’ve got until August 5, 2026, to share your thoughts, and these changes might impact how pesticides are used—and possibly how much they cost.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
Syngenta seeks wide new uses for fungicide
Syngenta submitted an application received March 24, 2026, to register cyclobutrifluram for many new crop and animal commodity uses, including tuberous vegetables, leafy vegetables, citrus, pome and stone fruit, tree nuts, grain/cereal, cotton, sugarcane, peanuts, and many animal products (e.g., milk, eggs). EPA lists this application (EPA Reg. No. 100-1721; Docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2026-1783) as under evaluation.
Public comment window—August 5, 2026
The EPA is asking the public to comment on applications to register new uses of currently registered pesticide active ingredients. You must submit comments online by August 5, 2026, using the docket ID or EPA file symbol shown in the notice.
Bayer seeks new uses for bromoxynil
Bayer CropScience submitted an application received June 27, 2025, to register bromoxynil for additional uses including rapeseed (crop subgroup 20A) and dried shelled legume/pulse subgroups (6-22E and 6-22F). EPA lists this application (EPA Reg. No. 264-533; Docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-2500) as under evaluation.
IR-4 requests cycloate use on quinoa
The IR-4 Project (NC State University) submitted an application received December 17, 2025, to register cycloate for use on quinoa. EPA lists this application (EPA Reg. No. 74530-16; Docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-1905) as under evaluation.
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