The Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association wants the EPA to set a cut-off for dicamba application next year. Association president Jean Payne tells Brownfield Ag News their suggestion of June 30th is based on feedback from professional applicators, “That would still give us flexibility in replant. But, in reality, even when we have to replant soybeans, by June 30th your soybeans are up, in the post-emerge condition. And so we threw that date out for Illinois but recognize other states might have other cut-off dates.”
Payne says complaints of damage to non-tolerant soybeans in the two years that the new dicamba products have been used are all from farmers and well exceed total complaints of any damages in 2016, “So, to go from 125 total to over 500 this year and over 400 last year is a troubling trend for anybody in the pesticide industry.
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