The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has developed Best Management Practices (BMPs) to address herbicide use and water resource protection. The BMPs are provided as a series of voluntary options to guide farmers on herbicide use. These practices can reduce herbicide leaching into groundwater or runoff into surface water while giving consideration to the specific needs of farming operations.
The BMPs were developed in 2004 to address the presence of the herbicides acetochlor, alachlor, atrazine, metolachlor and metribuzin, or their breakdown products, in Minnesota’s groundwater or surface water from normal agricultural use. The BMPs were developed by the MDA and University of Minnesota Extension, in consultation with other interested parties. The BMPs were updated in 2008 and the BMPs for all agriculture herbicides and acetochlor were subsequently revised in 2010.
MDA Contact
Gregg Regimbal, Unit Supervisor
Pesticide Management Unit
Gregg.Regimbal@state.mn.us
651-201-6671
Pesticide & Fertilizer Management Division
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