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U.S. gives farmers shorter window to spray dicamba
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U.S. gives farmers shorter window to spray dicamba

Move makes life difficult for growers who’ve already booked inputs

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Reuters – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has slightly shortened the window for farmers in major soybean-producing states to use a weedkiller criticized for drifting away from where it is sprayed. The restrictions make it harder for farmers to use dicamba, sold by agrichemical companies like Bayer AG and Syngenta, after some growers have already
A young soybean plant with leaf blistering and cupped leaves due to dicamba drift. Dicamba is one of the most volatile herbicides on the market.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Doubling down won’t solve weed woes

Dicamba was supposed to solve weed problems – instead, it’s making farming harder

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Farmers are stuck in a chemical war against weeds, which have developed resistance to many widely used herbicides. Seed companies’ answer – using more varied herbicides – is causing new problems. In October 2021 I was a guest on a popular podcast to discuss my recently published book, Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food
File photo of a dicamba-damaged soybean plant. (Reuters)
Crops, Weather

U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims

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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
Management interference flagged in Environmental Protection Agency’s dicamba decision
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Management interference flagged in Environmental Protection Agency’s dicamba decision

Office of inspector general says decision ran counter to EPA’s Scientific Integrity Policy

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Three senior United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) managers altered scientific documents to support the EPA’s decision to extend the registration of the herbicide dicamba in 2018, contrary to EPA’s Scientific Integrity Policy. That’s the conclusion of the EPA’s office of inspector general (OIG) in its report released May 24. The EPA’s decision to extend
Soybean fields are inspected in a University of Wisconsin research trial on dicamba drift at Arlington, Wisc. on Aug. 2, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Tom Polansek)
Crops

Bayer, Corteva in ‘two-dog battle’ over U.S. soy market

Companies' GM soybeans jockey for market share

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Chicago | Reuters — Bayer is launching a new genetically modified soybean in the United States, striking back against rival Corteva in a bid to retain its dominant position supplying seeds to the $40 billion U.S. soy industry. Billions of dollars are on the table for companies producing a growing variety of seeds for soybeans,
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Crops

U.S. EPA approves XtendiMax use for five years

Court ruling had blocked dicamba sales

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Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will allow farmers for the next five years to spray crops with a Bayer herbicide whose sales were blocked by a U.S. appeals court in June, EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler said Tuesday. XtendiMax, a dicamba-based herbicide that is sprayed on soybeans and cotton genetically engineered to
Dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth is showing up in Tennessee. Farmers there are already in a battle with glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth.
Crops, News

Dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth found in U.S.

Farmers there started growing dicamba-tolerant soybeans in 2016

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The list of herbicide-resistant weeds continues to grow. Dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth weeds have been found in parts of Tennessee, University of Tennessee Extension weed specialist Larry Steckel wrote in a July blog. “Results from some of the greenhouse experiments this winter and spring, as well as in-field research this growing season, would suggest that our
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Crops, Other

Bayer books second-quarter loss after settlement

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Frankfurt | Reuters — German drugs and pesticides group Bayer reported a 9.5 billion-euro (C$14.86 billion) net loss for its second quarter, following a US$10.9 billion settlement of U.S. lawsuits claiming that its Roundup herbicide caused cancer. The charges stemmed mainly from agreements which attempted to wrap up legal disputes inherited with its US$63 billion

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