Posted by me.--Tom

 

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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-pesticide-wreaks-havoc-across-u-s-crops


    Pesticide ‘drifting’ wreaks havoc across US crops
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    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
    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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