When I clicked on the first link, a 404 "page not found"  notice appeared.
 
Anyone who knew how rowcrop spraying is usually  done in the real world, 
and knew the history of dicamba drift, and read  the guidelines for applying 
new dicamba formulations, could have  foreseen a lot of this coming.   When I 
read last year about some  of the rules, especially about downwind 
unsprayed buffer zones, my reaction  was "yeah, right."
 
This is from another news story about dicamba:
 
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“Following  (the label instructions) as they are now is a Herculean task. 
Talk about  threading the needle — you can’t spray when it’s too windy. You 
can’t spray  under 3 miles per hour. You got to keep the boom down — there 
are so many  things,” said University of Tennessee weed management expert 
Larry Steckel, in  an excerpt from the suit. “It looks good on paper, but when 
a farmer or  applicator is trying to actually execute that over thousands 
of acres covering  several counties, it’s almost impossible.”
 
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Cindy

Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

"Whenever the days are cool and clear,
The sand-hill crane goes  walking
Across the field by the flashing weir,
Slowly, solemnly stalking."  (Mary Austin)  

 
In a message dated 8/2/2017 9:08:05 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
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Posted by me.--Tom



-----Original  Message-----
From: Laurel Hopwood <[log in to unmask]>
To:  CONS-SPST-BIOTECH-FORUM  <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wed, Aug 2, 2017  5:27 am
Subject: Dicamba drift wreaks havoc across US crops; EPA reviews  the 
pesticide


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-01/farmers-cry-foul-as-pesti
cide-wreaks-havoc-across-u-s-crops


Pesticide  ‘drifting’ wreaks havoc across US crops
EDITED
At least 2.5 million soy  acres are impacted.
Monsanto and BASK developed new dicamba-resistant  soybean and cotton 
seeds, allowing farmers to spray crops later in the growing  process.


Larry Martin in Illinois says he’s never seen anything like it  in his 35 
years of farming. Arkansas soybean grower Joe McLemore says he faces  the 
loss of his life savings.

_https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pesticides-epa-idUSKBN1AH585_ 
(http://gmwatch.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=29cbc7e6c21e0a8fd2a82aeb8&id=01
b14e9c3d&e=fd8a918f71) 
EDITED
EPA  is reviewing its directions on how to use the latest versions of the 
weed  killer dicamba, following hundreds of reports about crop damage when 
traces of  it drift away from application sites.

(Laurel writes: Goes to show how  our regulatory agencies rubber-stamp 
approvals. They don't look so they don't  find.)


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