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Dicamba drift complaints way down in Minnesota
Dicamba drift complaints are down dramatically in Minnesota.
Minnesota Soybean Growers Association president Bob Worth says there have been 14 complains this year compared to more than 400 in 2021.
“This is phenomenal. I think maybe this late spring had something to do with that, but I think maybe people realized how this product does move. So they’re trying to fix that.”
Worth chairs Minnesota Soybean’s Drift Task Force and tells Brownfield farmers need access to dicamba herbicides.
“There’s getting to be some Enlist-resistant weeds, and we’re even seeing some dicamba-resistant weeds, I mean we’re starting to see some resistant weeds that we didn’t think that we’d ever have. So we got to get more tools to put in our toolbox.”
In addition to federal label requirements, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture prohibited dicamba applications when the air temperature was over 85 degrees and had date cutoffs of June 12th south of Interstate 94 and June 30th north of I-94.
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