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Missouri dicamba lifted with restrictions
Missouri Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn has lifted the temporary ban on the dicamba based herbicides Engenia, Xtendimax with VaporGrip Technology, and FeXapan. To reduce off-target crop injury, the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) approved Special Local Need labels for the herbicides, including special provisions and safeguards for the use of the technology in Missouri.
“We wanted to prevent application during temperature inversions, we wanted to reduce the wind speed to help in insure that that was a possibility,” Chinn told Brownfield Ag News Thursday, “and the new label, while it may narrow the application time, it’s also going to allow this technology to be used.”
Director Chinn says BASF, Monsanto and DuPont agreed to additional safeguards for product use.
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