Betsy Jibben, “Farmers Waiting for EPA Approval of Dicamba,” AgWeb, November 7, 2016.

SUMMARY:

A mess was created in 2016 when Monsanto began selling its dicamba-tolerant Xtend soybeans before the herbicide designed to use with the GE seeds was approved by the EPA.  Farmers bought the seed anyway because of its high yield.   Some farmers sprayed dicamba anyways, an illegal off-label use, resulting in 40,000 acres of damage from drift in Missouri alone.  FULL TEXT