Reading Time: 4 minutes Spray expert says proposed dicamba rule change would ban ‘over the top’ use of the herbicide
Proposed dicamba restrictions please expert
Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pest Management Regulatory Agency removes the registration to spray dicamba on dicamba tolerant soybeans after the crop starts growing
Pesticides under fire in U.S.
Recent court decisions have threatened farmers' abilities to use some herbicides
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pesticides are increasingly under attack in the United States and that is keeping farm leaders awake at night.
Commodity Classic day one: Farmers concerned about EPA’s herbicide strategy
Farm bill, USDA crop forecasts on American farmers' minds at the Houston farm show
Reading Time: 3 minutes Day one of the 2024 Commodity Classic is in the books and a few interesting themes emerged from the annual gathering of U.S. corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers.
US allows farmers to use existing supplies of dicamba weedkillers
An Arizona court decision vacated the EPA's registration of dicamba-based herbicides
Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that farmers can use some existing supplies of herbicides based on the chemical dicamba, despite a federal court ruling last week that halted sprayings.
U.S. dicamba ruling won’t touch Canada: Bayer
Thousands of American farmers who have already bought the herbicide now in a bind after court bans over-the-top use
Reading Time: 3 minutes An Arizona court decision that essentially prohibits American farmers from using dicamba for over-the-top spraying on soybeans and cotton will not stop Canadian growers from using the herbicide this year, says Bayer Crop Science Canada.
US court cancels approvals for widely used dicamba weedkillers
EPA violated procedures mandating public input, judge rules
Reading Time: 2 minutes A U.S. court has nullified the government's latest approvals of certain agricultural weedkillers sold by Bayer, BASF and Syngenta, fueling uncertainty among farmers who spray the products on soybeans and cotton genetically engineered to resist them.
Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness
Losing battle with weeds adds pressures to farmers already stressed by inflation, extreme weather
Reading Time: 4 minutes Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer BAYGn.DE and Corteva CTVA.N can develop new ones to fight them.
Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a federal jury was wrongly told […] Read more
U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is assessing whether dicamba herbicide can be sprayed safely on soybean and cotton plants genetically engineered to resist the chemical, without the procedure posing “unreasonable risks” to other crops, an agency official said Tuesday. Farmers and scientists for years have reported problems with dicamba drifting away […] Read more
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