Soybean and cotton farmers using dicamba are reeling after a federal judge revoked the national permit for the popular herbicide.
It works for them because crops are genetically modified to
A federal court has revoked approval of the weed-killing pesticide dicamba. The ruling means farmers may not have access to the popular pesticide during the upcoming growing season.
The drift-prone
Just as it was looking like American agriculture was going to survive the pandemic and planting was turning out successful, rural areas learned they were losing the weedkiller dicamba to
Its critics say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has “doubled down” on the active ingredient in Roundup, the popular weed killer.
But that’s probably an overstatement.
On April