What is in this article?: • Farmers in the Southeast knew going
into the 2011 spring planting season that Temik was being taken
off the market — gradually up to 2016. • They didn’t count on a
lawsuit in West Virginia stopping production and significantly
restricting the amount of Temik available for the 2011 cropping
season. • The fallout from shortages in Temik supply has already
been significant in determining what crops farmers do and don’t
plant. Temik has been widely used in crops in the Southeast
since the early 1980s, and though maligned by both farmers and
environmental activists because of its safety liabilities, there
is no doubt the product has contributed significantly to the
growth in agricultural productivity around the world. Farmers in
the Southeast knew going into the 2011 spring planting season
that Temik was being taken off the market — gradually up to
2016. They didn’t count on a lawsuit in West Virginia stopping
production and significantly restricting the amount of Temik
available for th