Kevin Bradley, July 25, 2017, “Ag Industry, Do we have a problem yet?,” Integrated Pest and Crop Management, University of Missouri.

SUMMARY:

Article summarizes the total number of dicamba-related drift complaints as 1,411 as of July 19, 2017.  Arkansas leads with 686 complaints, while Missouri has over 200. Estimates of acres damaged are up to 2.5 million.  The author asks: “does 1,411 official dicamba-related injury investigations and/or approximately 2.5 million acres of dicamba-injured soybean constitute a problem for U.S. agriculture? …[M]y answer is an emphatic yes.”   FULL TEXT