Soybean farmers like myself rely on special seeds and herbicides to help us grow crops more efficiently and make environmentally conscious decisions. One such brand is “Enlist.” Enlist herbicides and seeds help us to implement practices, like no-till farming, to produce a better, more sustainable product. But it just so happens that, apparently, our farms are home to […] the American Burying Beetle. This beetle is listed as an endangered species, and the government believes it is susceptible to the Enlist line of herbicides, although recent studies have found little proof to back this statement. 

To protect these beetles, Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered that farmers in these five counties cannot use Enlist products. So, for the sake of a beetle, the EPA has decided to bury farmers instead.

My fellow farmers and I are stewards of the land. We implement the most efficient practices to produce the best product with as little negative impact as possible. But when the EPA takes away the only tools we have to make a successful growing season, what choice do we have? You are asking us to kill our land to save a beetle, one that might not even be dying in the first place. 

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