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ASA ok with dicamba restricted use; still looking for cause

Dicamba soybean damage ~ Photo from University of Illinois

The EPA’s restricted use designation on the newer dicamba herbicides for 2018 is supported by the American Soybean Association, “I think that’s the right thing to do, given the issues we dealt with this past summer. We don’t know for sure exactly what happened,” says ASA president Ron Moore, an Illinois soybean farmer. He tells Brownfield it’s too important of a technology to ignore the dicamba damage issues out there.

Moore says the Soybean Checkoff continues to support some of the research that land grant universities are doing to determine the root of the problem, “To find out for sure what happened. Is it volatilization of the product? Is it something else that’s happened, if it is out in the real world instead of a controlled research facility?”

Moore says the restricted use designation – agreed to by the manufacturers of the dicamba products for soybeans and cotton – means farmers like himself, and retailers, will have to go through training and education on how to mix the herbicide correctly and the right time to apply it. And, he says, that’s a good thing.

AUDIO:  Interview with Ron Moore, October 18, 2017:

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