Reports about soybean dicamba damage in Missouri have essentially doubled since the six-day dicamba ban was lifted in mid-July.
MU Weed Scientist Dr. Kevin Bradley tells Brownfield there were around 130 dicamba soybean injury cases reported to the Missouri Department of Agriculture before the department issued the temporary ban, “We’re at 257 so I think it speaks pretty clearly that there’s still quite a bit of drift and volatility that occurred after all of that.” Missouri lifted the ban but required restrictions on the use of the new herbicides, limiting the time it could be safely sprayed.
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