On May 3, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it received an application from Bayer CropScience LP for a new product containing the currently registered active ingredient ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Cotton growers commonly use glufosinate-based programs to control glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth. Palmer amaranth must be small (≤7.5 cm ...

In 2019, University of Tennessee weed scientist Dr. Larry Steckel saw more escape pigweeds in fields where dicamba had been sprayed. Steckel suspected this was the beginning of dicamba resistance ...

A federal court has overturned a previous ruling that allowed the use of over-the-top dicamba herbicides on dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton. The Tuesday, Feb. 6, ruling by the United States ...

A federal court has overturned a previous ruling that allowed the use of over-the-top dicamba herbicides on dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton. The Feb. 6, 2024, ruling by the United States ...

Evolution of kochia resistance to glyphosate and dicamba is a concern for growers in the US Great Plains. An increasing use of glyphosate and dicamba with the widespread adoption of glyphosate/dicamba ...

URBANA, Ill. – University of Illinois weed scientists have confirmed resistance to the herbicide dicamba in a Champaign County waterhemp population. In the study, dicamba controlled 65% of the ...

The registration for dicamba labels (Xtendimax, Engenia, and Tavium) for over-the-top applications in tolerant soybean varieties have been pulled for the 2025 growing season. Many farmers, crop ...

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 fate of a controversial chemical weedkiller that has pit farmer against farmer remains in legal limbo, but on American farms the herbicide will likely remain in use through the growing season, ...