The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Plant Board has
fined a Missouri farmer $105,000 for violating Arkansas’ dicamba laws and
regulations in 2018.
Greg Hay, president of the state Plant Board says the farmer
committed four egregious violations of the state’s dicamba rules. “There were two drifting off-target
violations,” he says. “And two
violations of using Class H product during the prohibited period. Those four violations, cumulative, each, received
a $25,000 fine.”
He tells Brownfield the Board hopes the strict enforcement of the rules will encourage farmers to follow the guidelines more closely.
