A University specialist says a soybean test plot has been damaged by Dicamba drift. Shawn Conley with the University of Wisconsin tells Brownfield he arrived at the plot last week to apply post-emergence herbicide at a variety trial site and quickly figured out what happened. “Every single variety that is resistant or tolerant I should say to Dicamba, and of the Xtend varieties, are showing no symptomology and every variety that does not have that trait in it is showing, you know, the typical cupped leaves and that damage from what I perceive to be a volatilization,” Conley says the Dicamba product might have come from miles away and he says, unfortunately, he might never find the source.
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