NCC Supports New Aldicarb Registration
May 3, 2011 The NCC recently submitted comments supporting a registration request from Ag Logic LLC for a generic aldicarb product, MEYMIK 15G. The registration request includes uses on cotton, dry beans, peanuts, soybeans, sugar beets and sweet potatoes.
Aldicarb is the active ingredient in Temik from Bayer CropScience.
Ag Logic LLC, a subsidiary of MEY Corp., submitted its registration request in Oct. ’10. On March 30, ’11, EPA published a Federal Register notice seeking public comment on the proposed registration under the Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-1021.
Since its introduction 40 years ago, aldicarb has been a key tool in cotton production for control of early season insect and nematode populations as well as for lygus control. Alternative products are unable to achieve comparable levels of control or cost effectiveness when compared to aldicarb for these pests.
The NCC comments stressed the importance of this product for producers and referred to research presented at the ’11 Beltwide Cotton Conferences that evaluated the effects on cotton yields in the product’s absence. Over a five-year period, cotton yields from untreated control plots were compared to plots treated with aldicarb. Plots treated with aldicarb produced an additional 198 pounds of cotton fiber per acre and an additional 297 pounds of cottonseed.
Based on this research and the assumption that 25% of US cotton acres are treated with aldicarb each year, ’11 production losses due to aldicarb’s absence are valued at $816 million.
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