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Dicamba damage this growing season was the driver of a resolution brought before the Illinois Farm Bureau delegation. Mike Griggs, Champaign County farm bureau delegate proposed consistent data sources for pesticide and weed control products, giving farmers a seat at the table for the FIFRA registration discussion for new products and…“To use our state universities ag departments to do research to help farmers understand the ideal times to apply different herbicides and pesticides as well as times when we should not be applying herbicides and pesticides.”

Griggs says some farmers in his county were impacted by dicamba drift this past growing season, “We want to be able to continue to develop new technologies but we also want to make sure that as there are more and more technologies in the marketplace, individuals have the opportunity to use all of those technologies without being concerned about impacts from one technology impacting another.”

The resolution did not pass.

Continue reading Resolution driven by dicamba issue at Brownfield Ag News.