Day of Reckoning for Dicamba 2,4-D Crops?
By Forrest Laws, Delta Farm Press
When EPA first registered the new dicamba formulations for over-the-top use on dicamba-tolerant crops in 2016, it was almost a case of déjà vu all over again, to quote the late baseball legend, Yogi Berra.
Twenty years before Monsanto had introduced the first glyphosate-tolerant cotton and soybean crops to similar fanfare. For several years the technology worked spectacularly, killing 2- and 3-feet tall Palmer amaranth, until it didn’t. Now it’s happening again.