EPA Narrows Dicamba Application Window for Some Areas

There are key requirements to keep in mind including use of a pH buffering adjuvant, nozzle selection, proper mixing order and more.

VRAs, mobile apps, and adjuvants aim to ease volatility and/or physical drift.

The company instead is shifting resources to support the Enlist weed control system.

Despite regulatory certainty, most CropLife 100 retailers foresee no growth potential for dicamba applications in the future.

As ag looks to the 2021 season, controlling yield-robbing weeds has remained a key priority, especially with forces both in the field and from outside impacting the segment.

Having more choices is a good problem — but navigating dicamba uncertainty and COVID weigh on the retail seed business.

On October 27, EPA announced that over-the-top dicamba applications can take place during the 2021 growing season, with a few new requirements.

2,4-D and glufosinate weed control failures also on the rise as retailers, awaiting regulators’ decision on dicamba’s re-registration, face yet more uncertainty.

Petition requests a review of the decision by a panel of 11 judges from the Ninth Circuit instead of the three-judge panel that issued the previous decision.

Because of all this uncertainty, many industry observers have speculated that 2020 could mark the end of the dicamba-tolerant crop experiment.

For the nation’s ag retailers and their cotton growing customers, 2020 has presented its own set of market challenges.

Bayer will pay up to $400 million to resolve dicamba litigation and claims.

The settlement is the “right action at the right time for Bayer to bring a long period of uncertainty to an end,” said CEO Werner Baumann.

Late on Friday, Judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reached a decision to deny an emergency motion to immediately end over-the-top applications of dicamba.

With its present seemingly secure, the focus now turns to what happens next for the herbicide.

With no alternative for weed management, “yield losses for soy and cotton could be as high as 50 percent.”

The grower coalition’s brief, filed June 16, makes a case for farmers caught in a highly frustrating and costly situation.

Bayer AG said on Tuesday it will scrap a nearly $1 billion project to produce dicamba in the U.S., according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.