Glyphosate herbicide provides significant environmental and economic benefits to farmers, and to all Iowans, and the registration for its safe use should be extended by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) said in comments to the agency.

“The IFBF strongly supports this valuable crop protection compound,” IFBF said in written comments as part of the EPA’s interim registration review of glyphosate. “It has provided significant...