Steve Davies, “No dicamba use after April 15, Arkansas plant board says,” Agri-Pulse, November 8, 2017.

SUMMARY:

On Wednesday November 7, the Arkansas State Plant Board voted 10-3 to ban dicamba use between April 16-October 31 in 2018. Monsanto was “fiercely opposed” to this ban, which now heads to the executive committee of the Arkansas Legislative Council for final approval. Monsanto has filed a lawsuit against the plant board over the partial ban implemented this year, and submitted extensive comments against the 2018 ban. BASF’s Engenia herbicide was the only dicamba formulation approved in Arkansas in 2017 for use with the new resistant crops, and Monsanto claims that BASF told them that it sold only about enough Engenia to cover half the state’s soybean crop. This would mean that much of the dicamba sprayed in 2017 was off-label use, a claim disputed by other experts.  FULL TEXT