National Ag News
Specialty crop group has been proactive to prevent dicamba drift issues
Jul 11, 2017, 17:20 PM
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The chairman of the Save Our Crops Coalition says so far off-target movement of dicamba has not been a major problem for specialty crop growers.
Steve Smith is director of agriculture for Indiana-based Red Gold tomatoes. “We really haven’t seen a lot of damage in our tomato crop,” he says. “However I have heard of issues in southwest Indiana with the melon crop.”
He tells Brownfield they’ve been fortunate. “We hope that that is the result of a lot of good collaboration between neighbors working together and making sure that they haven’t exposed the specialty crops to dicamba,” he says.
