An Arkansas panel has approved new rules for the use of an herbicide that has drawn complaints from farmers who say it has drifted onto their crops and caused damage.
The Plant Board has approved an amended rule for the use of dicamba for the 2020 growing season. The rule keeps in place a May 25 cutoff for the herbicide’s use.
Under the rule, all applications of in-crop dicamba products between April 16 and May 25 must be reported to the state Department of Agriculture’s online registry within 10 days. Applicators of dicamba during that period must have a printed GPS map of the application available on request.
The rule now goes to Gov. Asa Hutchinson and will go to a legislative panel after 30 days if he approves.
Related:
- Arkansas Plant Board Bans Older Dicamba Formulas After Mid-April
- Arkansas Panel Approves Rules for Use of Previously Banned Herbicide
- Arkansas Panel OKs Restrictions on Dicamba Herbicide Use
- Arkansas Rejects Farmers’ Request to Lift Dicamba Ban
- Arkansas Supreme Court Halts Judge’s Dicamba Ban Exemptions
- Monsanto Moves to Stop Arkansas from Banning its Dicamba Weed Killer
- Arkansas Task Force: State Should Bar Dicamba Herbicide Next Year
Topics Agribusiness
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