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Dicamba drift causes wide range of yield impact

Soybean growers are reporting a wide range of yield impact from dicamba drift this year.

Bob Worth is a farmer from southwest Minnesota and secretary of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association.

“It’s huge.  In some cases, the dicamba increased the yield, and in some cases it went all the way up to a 12-bushel decrease.”

Worth also chairs the Dicamba Task Force commissioned by the Minnesota Soybean Growers.

He tells Brownfield data is still being gathered.

“That’s just what we’re hearing from crop consultants from across the state of Minnesota, so that’s just hearsay.  We have no proven data that states this is what it was.  But we’ve got to believe what they say.”

The Task Force recently sent a letter to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, recommending a new state label for dicamba products that includes a temperature cutoff of 85 degrees or higher.

 

 

 

 

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