Nearly 800 comments submitted to EPA on its dicamba ecological and human health risk assessments split widely on the herbicide’s value to American agriculture. Broadly speaking, comments broke down ...

The EPA has proposed registering three types of dicamba to control weeds in soybeans and cotton that have been genetically modified to withstand the herbicide, finding that “mitigation” measures will ...

The use of dicamba, an herbicide, has become an extremely contentious issue in some farm states. It has been accused of “tearing apart the fabric of rural life.” The issues surrounding dicamba present ...

The operators of two Southeast Missouri soybean farms have filed a class-action lawsuit against St. Louis-based Monsanto Co., alleging their crops were damaged by exposure to dicamba herbicide. The 35 ...

EPA is proposing to re-register dicamba herbicide for over-the-top application to cotton and soybeans, with restrictions intended to limit ecological harm. Dicamba has been blamed for significant ...

Dave Wilkins/Capital Press Sugar beets are harvested Sept. 18 near Murtaugh, Idaho, for Grant-Hagan Farms. Idaho farmers are expected to produce 5.56 million tons of beets this year, a 54 percent ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 4, 2025) Comments on EPA proposal to bring back controversial use of herbicide dicamba due by Saturday, September 6, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. With more than 90 percent of ...

The environmental agency’s latest draft ecological risk assessment identified risks to honeybees, in addition to already known dangers to non-target plants. The widely used weedkiller dicamba poses a ...

Bayer Crop Science is trying again to get the drift-prone herbicide dicamba back on the US market for use on soybeans and cotton crops that are genetically modified to tolerate it. In response to a ...

Off-target dicamba damage in 2021 may be the worst year yet in the Upper Midwest Joe Ikley, NDSU Extension Service weed specialist, says it appears off-target crop damage from dicamba applications in ...

An estimated 650,000 acres of soybeans have been damaged by dicamba in Arkansas this summer and dicamba complaints filed with the state have increased at a clip not seen since 2017. The estimate by ...