National Ag News

Bipartisan legislation increasing the penalties for off-label use of herbicides was signed into law Friday by Governor Eric Greitens.  What is known as the dicamba bill was introduced by State Representative Don Rone following complaints of plant injury from drift of the herbicide dicamba onto sensitive crops mostly in southeast Missouri.  Dicamba was applied against label directions to cotton and soybeans bred specifically to tolerate the herbicide, but prior to the release of a new formulation of the compound that is less likely to drift. 

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