Bayer Settles Dicamba Drift Lawsuits
June 24, 2020
The settlement is the “right action at the right time for Bayer to bring a long period of uncertainty to an end,” said CEO Werner Baumann.
The tank-mix will provide postemergence control of more than 54 troublesome weeds with no impact to crop rotation plans.
Late on Friday, Judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reached a decision to deny an emergency motion to immediately end over-the-top applications of dicamba.
With its present seemingly secure, the focus now turns to what happens next for the herbicide.
With no alternative for weed management, “yield losses for soy and cotton could be as high as 50 percent.”
The grower coalition’s brief, filed June 16, makes a case for farmers caught in a highly frustrating and costly situation.
Bayer AG said on Tuesday it will scrap a nearly $1 billion project to produce dicamba in the U.S., according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Ten additional herbicides, four additional insecticides, and one additional fungicide from FMC have been approved.
BASF said the Ninth Circuit’s decision has caused “immediate chaos among the agricultural community and threatens the livelihood of countless U.S. farmers.”
Soybean growers and retailers in Illinois can breathe a sigh of relief as the IDA extends the dicamba application cut-off date to June 25.
After a tumultuous three-plus years, dicamba application is no longer legal in the U.S.
Our annual half-year survey tries to make sense of a world that’s turned on a dime for many.
EPA “substantially understated” risks of the herbicide, court says.
Social distancing requirements have highlighted digital systems that collect and aggregate data with less human interaction.
Following some rough years, ag retailers are apparently having an easier time applying dicamba these days.
Because of all the disruptive field conditions caused by 2019, in-field management for corn will be a bit trickier than normal this year, say experts.
With most court cases at a standstill because of COVID-19, there is still some news to share on the popular herbicide.
With delayed plantings/applications occurring during 2019, many weed analysts foresee plenty of potential trouble with herbicide-resistant varieties in 2020.
Approval by EPA enables growers more flexibility in crop protection decisions for 2020.