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Minnesota soybean farmer fed up with dicamba
A soybean farmer in southern Minnesota is moving on from dicamba.
Sam Ziegler of Good Thunder tells Brownfield there are a couple reasons.
“Last year was frustrating (because) the dicamba process in the state of Minnesota is frustrating, so I bailed on dicamba this year. I’m going all E3 beans.”
He’s referring to the Enlist weed control system.
Ziegler says they sprayed dicamba right up to the state cutoff of June 20th last year.
“And it still didn’t control the weeds. In fact, we had some grass escape, and I don’t know if the Roundup and the dicamba aren’t mixing very well, or if grasses are (developing) some resistance. But yeah, frustration with dicamba (and) I’ve moved on.”
For 2021, Minnesota will follow the federal cutoff of June 30th for dicamba applications.
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