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
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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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