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Missouri dicamba injury reports exceed last year
The number of off-target dicamba injuries reported in Missouri is more than the number reported by this time last year. As of Monday, 112 complaint allegations have been made involving dicamba injury to susceptible crops, according to Chris Chinn, director of agriculture in Missouri. That’s 14 more than had come in by June 28, 2017. Chinn points out that the cutoff date for dicamba use in southeast Missouri was June 10th, and it’s July 15th for the rest of the state.
“Because of those cutoff dates, we do feel like we will have a more successful 2018,” Chinn told Brownfield Ag News, “but we also want to remind producers in the rest of the state that that 24-C label still applies.”
The label says dicamba can be used only until soybeans reach the R-ONE growth stage, which, in many cases, has already happened.
“There are a lot of areas right now in the state [because soybeans have reached the R-1 growth stage] it’s still an off-label use if you use dicamba right now,” said Chinn.
Chinn says most of the complaints are coming from southeast Missouri and involve 17,000 acres of soybeans and lesser areas of trees, fruits and vegetables. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has also fielded 15 herbicide injury complaints involving 2,4-D.
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