Bibliography Tag: dicamba or 2 4 d
Steve Smith, Comment of the Save Our Crops Coalition, RE: Notice of Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities; Pesticide Products; Receipt of Applications to Register New Uses, Docket Nos. EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0841-0001, EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0215-0002,
Thursday, January 17, 2013.
SUMMARY:
The Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC) is a grassroots coalition of farm interests
organized for the specific purpose of preventing injury to non-target crops from
exposure to 2,4-D and dicamba. This comment requests the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) evaluate dicamba residue tolerances for dicamba tolerant crops and the tolerances proposed by SOCC concurrently, and withhold registration of all new uses of dicamba until EPA has established residue tolerances for effected crops.
Steve Smith, “Deployment of Dicamba-resistant soybeans and what it will mean to canned and frozen food processors and specialty crop growers in the Midwest,” Testimony before Congress, Domestic Policy Subcommittee of Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, September 30, 2010.
SUMMARY:
Steve Smith, the Director of Agriculture at Red Gold, the largest canned tomato processor in the U.S., testifies before Congress on the approval of dicamba-resistant soybeans. FULL TEXT
Steve Smith, “Save Our Crops Coalition Open Letter to Chairman of Monsanto,” August 9, 2016.
SUMMARY:
open letter Steve Smith, Chairman of the Save Our Crops Coalition sent to Hugh Grant, Chairman and CEO of the Monsanto Company about drift damage from dicamba spraying on dicamba-resistant crops. FULL TEXT
Robb Fraley for Monsanto, “Dicamba Drift: Monsanto Announces Action Plan,” Monsanto Blog in AgFax, August 8, 2017.
SUMMARY:
Monsanto releases a 3 part plan to address the surge in dicamba drift complaints. FULL TEXT
Kevin Bradley, August 14, 2017, “Update on Dicamba-related Injury Investigations and Estimates of Injured Soybean Acreage,” Integrated Pest and Crop Management Newsletter, University of Missouri.
SUMMARY:
Updates numbers of dicamba damage nationally- 2,242 complaints and estimated 3.1 million acres damaged. FULL TEXT
Mary Hightower, “Dicamba Drift: Arkansas Researchers Find All Formulations Volatile; 876 Injury Reports,” AgFax, August 10, 2017.
SUMMARY:
The Plant Board reports 876 complaints as of 8/10. An estimated 35% of the state’s 3.5 million acres and 300,000 of the 400,000 acres of cotton are planted in dicamba resistant acreage that would be sprayed with the new herbicide formulations. Weed scientists with the state point out that although lab testing found that the new formulations (Engenia, Xtendimax, and FeXapanTM) were less volatile than older dicamba herbicides (i.e. Banvel and Clarity), researchers have found that under realistic, field growing conditions “differences in volatility between older dicamba products such as Clarity and newer ones including Engenia and Xtendimax are not as evident… Soybeans are so sensitive, very, very low levels of volatility can cause injury.” FULL TEXT
Chuck Abbott, “Arkansas Task Force Aims for Long-Term Recommendations on Use of Dicamba,” The Fern, August 9, 2017.
SUMMARY:
Arkansas has appointed a 21-member task force to help identify solutions for the dicamba drift damage problem, with 900 complaints received this year so far. FULL TEXT
Environmental Protection Agency, “Dicamba (3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid); Pesticide Tolerance,” 40 CFR Part 180, Federal Register, January 6, 1999, Vol. 64, No. 3.
SUMMARY:
Updates tolerances for dicamba. FULL TEXT
DuPont, FeXapan Herbicide Label, July 23, 2015, EPA Registration Number 352-913.
SUMMARY:
First label for BASF FeXapan Herbicide containing DGA dicamba and inert ingredients intended to reduce volatility and drift. FULL TEXT
Bryce Gray, “Reports of crop damage resurfacing since Missouri dicamba ban lifted,” St Louis Post-Dispatch, August 4, 2017.
SUMMARY:
Reports that the dicamba ban in Missouri was lifted in Mid-July and farmers had resumed spraying. Damage reports are re-occurring. One farmer quoted in the story compares his Missouri acres where “every acre” is showing damage to his healthy soybean fields in neighboring Arkansas that has a similar dicamba ban in place. Some places showing damage are at least a mile away from any possible source of dicamba. Missouri’s ban was in place for less than a week after stricter conditions rules for spraying dicamba were issued targeting wind speed and the time of application. Monsanto is based in Missouri and some questioned the role their political power played in the lifting of the ban. FULL TEXT
