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Monsanto says it filed a complaint Friday in court about the Arkansas Plant Board’s rejection of Monsanto’s petition to stop that state’s ban on the company’s XtendiMax dicamba herbicide for 2018. In a statement to Brownfield, Monsanto’s Scott Partridge said the ban is unwarranted and puts Arkansas farmers at a disadvantage.

According to Partridge, the complaint filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court says the Arkansas plant board overlooked “extensive volatility data provided to it – including data that the EPA used in its registration decision.”

Earlier this month, the EPA announced it was making the dicamba products Restricted USE Pesticides for the 2018 growing season because of crop damage reports this growing season, a decision made with Monsanto and the other makers of the dicamba products.

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