# OAKES FERTILIZER
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `51840`
- **Case Number:** 08-2001-0130
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SOUTH DAKOTA WHEAT GROWERS ASSN (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY ORDER IS ISSUED TO THE SOUTH     DAKOTA WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIATION D/B/A OAKES FERTILIZER      AN ADULTERATED AND MISBRANDED PESTICIDE.  RESPONDENT BROKE   THE SEAL ON A PESTICIDE CONTAINER (POAST PLUS) AND INSERTED  AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF A PESTICIDE WITH THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT  DICAMBA, ALSO KNOWN AS BANVEL.  THE PESTICIDE WAS MISBRANDED SINCE THE SUBJECT PESTICIDE CONTAINERS' CONTENTS DIFFERED    FROM THE AFFIXED LABEL INGREDIENT STATEMENTS.  THE PROPOSED  PENALTY FOR THIS VIOLATION IS $5,500.

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