The National Corn Growers Association and other agriculture organizations are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to postpone a meeting scheduled for Tuesday related to the pesticide chlorpyrifos. EPA is proposing a plan to eliminate the use chlorpyrifos, used for combating pests such as soybean aphids, spider mites and corn rootworm. NCGA, along with 41 other farm organizations, sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy arguing the Science Advisory Panel meeting was “hastily called.” DTN reports a decision by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in San Francisco pressured the agency to make a decision by October of last year, on whether or not it would establish food tolerances for the insecticide. EPA stated it did not have the data needed to do so and instead would pursue a ban.