Thousands of acres of Arkansas soybeans have been damaged by drifting dicamba, and the number of damaged acres is expected to increase.
Arkansas Seed Growers Association President Scooter Hodges tells Brownfield he’s seen damage and has heard that as much as 20,000 acres has been hit with off-target dicamba herbicide.
“That will grow,” Hodges told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday in a soybean test plot at Forrest City, Arkansas. “That will grow, because all of our soybeans are at different stages; some haven’t even come up, some are just now being planted.
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