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DTN Progressive Farmer reports that dicamba-resistant weeds appear to have started to crop up in the Midwest and Midsouth regions. These soy and cotton growing regions have seen a huge increase in dicamba use over the last couple of years since dicamba-resistant varieties of these crops were introduced. An estimated 60 million acres of dicamba […]
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Canadian ag media is reporting that Cargill, one of the largest grain buyers and shippers in the world, will no longer be accepting any lentils that were sprayed with glufosinate herbicides late in the growing season to desiccate, or dry out, the crop. For more on this common practice, see this in-depth article by the […]
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The winner of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism was announced this week. InsideClimate News beat out the New York Times and ProPublica to take the top spot for their series “Harvesting Peril: Extreme Weather and Climate Change on the American Farm.” “Harvesting Peril describes how the […]
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A Scientific American piece on neonicotinoid insecticides begins with a fascinating story about a wildlife rehab clinic in Montana. In the 1990s, a “bizarre trend” was noticed — an unusual number and diversity of birth defects in roadkill deer and other big game autopsied at the clinic. Scientists at the clinic pondered what could have […]
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Reprinted with permission from an email update sent March 26, 2019 by Steve Smith, Senior Director of Agriculture for Red Gold and Chairman of the Save Our Crops Coalition. Links and photos added by Hygeia. For background on the dicamba drift crisis, see our Special Coverage. Updates are coming fewer and farther between as the […]
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A new presentation is circulating among ag nerds that was given by Tim Creger, the Pesticide/Fertilizer Program Manager for the Nebraska Department of Agriculture to the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO). Creger and his team are responsible for handling all reports of damage from drifting herbicides, and like state agencies around the Midwest […]
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In the News 11/03/2020: Implications of EPA’s Decision to Renew Dicamba Registration for Over-the-Top Use
After months of meetings, and over 2,500 public comments, the Arkansas Plant Board finally decided what to do about dicamba in the 2019 planting season. As Liza Gross reports in Fern’s Ag Insider, The Board went against the recommendations of state weed scientists, and the vast majority of the members of the public who provided […]
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Three new Xtend-dicamba related items have been posted recently on Hygeia. Collectively they frame what is to come as farmers and herbicide applicators begin the 2019 herbicide spray season. In a fact-filled piece in DTN, Emily Unglesbee traces the march of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth across the southeast, and then to the north and west. This […]
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