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A year after environmentalists lost a regulatory battle to keep controversial pesticide methyl iodide off the California market, they appear to be winning the ground war against the chemical.<\/p>\n

Only six California growers have used methyl iodide\u2014marketed as Midas\u2014to zap soil borne pests and weeds before planting crops like chile peppers, strawberries and walnut trees.<\/p>\n

Methyl iodide manufacturer Arysta LifeScience Corp. paid for at least two of the fumigations. The company shared in the cost of a third, according to the grower.<\/p>\n

By way of comparison, more than 8,500 soil fumigations took place in California in 2009, the last year for which data is available from the state\u2019s Department of Pesticide Regulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMethyl iodide is a speck on the horizon,\u201d said Les Wright, Fresno County Agricultural Commissioner.<\/p>\n

Growers and agriculture industry groups clamored for methyl iodide registration last year before the California Department of Pesticide Regulation gave the chemical its final approval.<\/p>\n

They pointed to the coming ban on methyl bromide, one of the most effective and widely used fumigants in the state, and argued that without methyl iodide, California\u2019s billion-dollar agriculture industry would hemorrhage jobs and profits. Methyl bromide is currently being phased out under the Montreal Protocol; it\u2019s expected to be eliminated altogether by 2015.<\/p>\n

But now, some growers say methyl iodide is too politically risky to use.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who oppose this particular chemical are really loud and effective,\u201d said Liz Elwood Ponce, co-owner of Lassen Canyon Nursery in Redding. \u201cIf no one said anything, I think the chemical would be used more widely. But the objection has pretty much paralyzed the growers into no action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Methyl iodide use has been so rare that Arysta put out a press release last October to announce its first application on the Central Coast, which took place only after the Santa Barbara County Ag commissioner dismissed a challenge to the fumigation permit by environmental law firm Earthjustice.<\/p>\n

The controversy over methyl iodide had simmered for years, but it erupted in 2010 when Department of Pesticide Regulation managers overruled both their own staff scientists and an agency appointed peer review panel to approve the chemical for use in California agriculture.<\/p>\n

UCLA professor John Froines, who chaired the peer review committee, appeared at a state assembly hearing in Sacramento last April and said \u201cscience was subverted\u201d in the state\u2019s decision to approve methyl iodide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not want my family, my friends or anyone else to live or work or go to school near fields where this methyl iodide will be used,\u201d Froines said after detailing the chemical\u2019s properties that are known to cause cancer and damage nervous systems. \u201cYou had the best science you could have had and the fact that it was ignored is devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earthjustice and California Rural Legal Assistance have sued the state Department of Pesticide Regulation on behalf of environmentalists and farm workers, arguing that regulators put politics before safety in approving methyl iodide, and demanding the decision be reversed. A Fresno County methyl iodide application last summer drew protests, and last month, Santa Cruz County Supervisors passed a resolution urging Gov. Brown to reconsider methyl iodide registration. Last March, the governor told a Ventura County newspaper that his administration would take a fresh look at the decision, but he\u2019s taken no action since then.<\/p>\n

So far no health and safety issues related to the five California applications have been reported.<\/p>\n

But the political heat is too much for growers, especially those with recognizable labels, Elwood Ponce said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig growers that market in all these stores can\u2019t take a chance on a boycott\u201d, said Elwood Ponce.<\/p>\n

\u201cMethyl iodide is indeed a political hot potato\u201d, said Paul Towers of the Pesticide Action Network of North America, whose group is a plaintiff in the methyl iodide lawsuit.\u00a0 \u201cBut what made it a political hot potato is grounded in scientific reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dennis Lane, a sales manager for Trical, Inc. a Hollister-based company that markets and applies fumigants, said he thinks slow sales are normal for a new product.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey haven\u2019t seen it on their farm,\u201d Lane said of California growers.<\/p>\n

So far, at least one farmer, Tzexa Lee of Fresno County\u2019s Cherta Farms, said his experience with an Arysta-funded fumigation was mixed. He lost 20 percent of the chile peppers he planted, and doesn\u2019t know why. The company took soil samples, but representatives haven\u2019t given Lee any answers yet. Still, he said the chemical was great at weed killing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo workers were needed for weeding,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n

The other Fresno County application was also a bust. But grower David Sarabian said the loss of the chiles he planted after the fumigation was due to scorching hot summer temperatures, not the chemical.<\/p>\n

In Florida, the company reported 14 incidents of minor plant damage to Ethe PA in 2008 and 2009. Such post-fumigation problems are reportedly rare.<\/p>\n

In California, the high cost of methyl iodide may be keeping some growers away. Lane also noted that state-mandated half-mile buffer zones between fields that are fumigated with methyl iodide and homes, schools, day care centers and other such sensitive sites also limit its use because of the proximity of agricultural land to neighborhoods, especially in coastal areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt almost makes it unusable,\u201d Lane said.<\/p>\n

Arysta officials declined to discuss methyl iodide use in California. The company\u2019s website says Midas has been successfully applied on more than 17,000 acres in the southeastern U.S.<\/p>\n

However, in several of those states, including Florida, one of the nation\u2019s biggest agricultural producers, officials say methyl iodide use has been light.<\/p>\n

In an email, Dennis Howard, chief of Florida\u2019s Bureau of Pesticides, wrote that based on his discussions with Arysta and growers, \u201c\u2026my understanding is that very few if any applications are occurring in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n

 
\nAt North Carolina State University, plant pathologist and extension specialist Frank Louws said, \u201cThe Montreal Protocol has seen methyl iodide as a true replacement (for methyl bromide) but our growers have not gravitated that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

In California, the fate of methyl iodide is in the hands of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch, who will hear the Earthjustice case in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think many people are waiting to see what is the outcome of this lawsuit,\u201d said Rick Tomlinson, public policy director of the California Strawberry Commission. \u201cFarmers live in these communities. They\u2019re not going to rush in and adopt something when there\u2019s a concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

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