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Missouri announces first wave of dicamba penalties

The Missouri Department of Agriculture has issued and collected what it calls its “first wave” of civil penalties against applicators for off-target dicamba application LAST year.

All of the applicators are in Dunklin County, in the southeast Missouri “Bootheel.”  The penalties range from 15-hundred dollars to more than $62-thousand-dollars.”

Director Chris Chinn says the ag department is in its “final stages” of reviewing 2016 investigations and continuing to investigate complaints of dicamba damage filed THIS year.

Sixty applicators were named in the 121 complaints filed for 2016. There were NO approved dicamba herbicides last year.