The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a handful of herbicides from Syngenta as tankmix partners for two of the three new dicamba formulations — XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology and Engenia.
Once posted on www.XtendiMaxApplicationRequirements.com and www.EngeniaTankMix.com, the tankmix partners will be...
Making sure producers with the new auxin-tolerant technologies do a good job minimizing drift and volatility goes far beyond just their soybean or cotton fields. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service personnel are extending the education to producers with sensitive...
If yields continue as they have been this season, Arkansas is set to break a state yield record.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service forecasts Arkansas’ soybean harvest will be 175 million bushels, up 20 percent from...
The Missouri Department of Agriculture has established cut-off dates for application of Engenia dicamba herbicide for the 2018 cotton and soybean seasons. These are part of a Section 24(c) Special Local Needs label for the BASF herbicide.
The state anticipates...
Monsanto Co. filed suit Oct. 20 in Pulasky County Circuit Court seeking to block the Arkansas State Plant Board from prohibiting use of dicamba herbicides next summer.
The latest salvo comes after the Plant Board at its Sept. 21 meeting...
The University of Missouri plans to offer both in-person and Web-based dicamba training beginning in December. The locations and dates have not been finalized but should be available shortly, according to a news release.
The training is in response to...
The Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with state pesticide regulators, has made a number of changes to the label of three dicamba herbicides for 2018, including making them restricted use materials.
The new requirements, reached in agreement with Monsanto, BASF...
The Arkansas Plant Board is accepting comments about a proposed ban on application of all dicamba formulations from April 15-Oct. 31, 2018. Deadline to comment is Oct. 30.
The proposed ban stems from recommendations by the Arkansas Dicamba Task Force,...
The Arkansas Plant Board's Pesticide Committee voted Sept. 12 to ban applications of all dicamba formulations within the state from April 15-Oct. 31, 2018.
The full Plant Board could take the measure up as early as Sept. 21 at its...
The Arkansas Dicamba Task Force, meeting Aug. 24 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain, recommended a date-specific ban on dicamba use for the 2018 crop year.
That recommendation and others will now be forwarded to the State...
Preliminary University of Arkansas research results shed light on potential drift and volatility of three new formulations.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
Even if you follow all of the label recommendations when applying the new dicamba formulations, the herbicides can still volatilize and...
The Missouri Department of Agriculture has lifted the recent ban on applying Engenia, XtendiMax and FeXipan dicamba herbicides on tolerant soybeans and cotton, instead replacing it with Special Local Needs labels.
The statewide order prohibiting use or sale of all...
In response to numerous complaints of suspected dicamba drift, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture issued emergency application restrictions on newer dicamba formulations. Use of older dicamba formulations are banned in Tennessee for the rest of the season.
The rules are...
BASF, which markets Engenia dicamba herbicide, says Missouri and Arkansas agriculture officials' decision to temporarily halt dicamba applications robs farmers of one of the few technologies they have to control weeds resistant to other chemistries.
The Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based...
After a series of delays, it appears an emergency ban on in-season over-the-top use of dicamba on Xtend crops in Arkansas will go into effect at 12:01 a.m., July 11.
Following more than 130 complaints filed with the state, the...
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