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Missouri forgoes state dicamba label for 2019

Missouri certified applicators will NOT have a state label to follow on dicamba products in the 2019 growing season. Missouri Agriculture Director Chris Chinn says the new two-year federal label for the three dicamba products is 40 pages long which the department has carefully reviewed, “We see that there are similarities in the federal label and Missouri’s previous 24C label that we had in 2018. Because of that, we don’t see a need for an additional special local needs label like what we did in the 2018 growing season.”

Among other requirements, the EPA federal label bans over the top application of dicamba on soybeans 45 days after planting or until first bloom (the R1 growth stage), “We want to make sure that we are getting a decision out as quickly as we can to help farmers in their purchasing decisions. We know that that happens right now during this time of year and we want to make sure that farmers have some clear direction on what the path forward is going to be.”Training will be required every year for those applying dicamba and will be offered by Bayer, BASF and Corteva. The University of Missouri will offer classes as before.

Missouri Department of Agriculture – dicamba statement for 2019 growing season