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Organic vegetable grower wants dicamba cut-off to remain
Dec 19, 2017, 17:26 PM
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A former member of the Arkansas Dicamba Task force is unhappy that a legislative committee and now the Arkansas legislative council want the April 15th cutoff date for dicamba applications to be extended. Shawn Peebles, an organic vegetable grower in northeast Arkansas (Woodruff and White County areas), says volatility of the dicamba herbicides is the problem. He tells Brownfield Ag News, “That’s where the problem is, is in the volatility and the fact that Monsanto is not taking responsibility for the fact that the product is volatile.”
Only BASF’s Engenia herbicide, in fact, was allowed for use in Arkansas last year, not Monsanto’s Xtendimax.
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