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Extension helping set farmers up for success with dicamba

Extension educators are doing what they can to ensure farmers and applicators using dicamba technology are set up for success.

Liz Stahl with the University of Minnesota says after extensive training throughout the winter in states that reported drift complaints, everyone should have a handle on federal and state requirements.

“If you’re not able to meet the restrictions, because we don’t want to (think) there’s all these tough restrictions (that) are so hard to meet, you just want to be realistic looking at what you can likely do, what you hope you can do.  But have a Plan B or C figured out as well.”

She encourages farmers to do as much legwork as possible ahead of spraying.

“Finding out where those sensitive crops are.  Making sure your app works for detecting temperature inversions for example, if that’s what you plan to use.  Again, doing all that legwork as much as you can before you get into the heat of the season where you just want everything to work as well as it can.”

Stahl tells Brownfield she’s concerned about a smaller window for application because of the late start to the growing season coupled with additional dicamba restrictions that include date and temperature cutoffs in certain states.