Comment submitted by Amanda Gevens

Summary: Dr. Amanda Gevens, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, supports the EPA's goal of developing a fungicide strategy but urges the agency to ensure that mitigation measures do not compromise the ability of potato and vegetable growers to make timely, preventive fungicide applications. She argues that overly restrictive requirements on droplet size, wind speed, and mandatory adjuvants could lead to disease outbreaks, increased fungicide resistance, and significant economic losses for specialty crop producers.