2018 Farm Outlook

Page 24 2018 Logan County Farm Outlook Magazine LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Oct. 25, 2018 too comfortable with the statistics. By way of example, an early season report in The Progressive Farmer listed - “in addition to 3,107 potentially injured soybean acres, Missouri has dicamba complaints for 1,445 tomato plants, 514 acres of peaches, 75 acres of watermelons, 50 pepper plants, two greenhouses with vegetables, personal gardens, grapes, 15 rose bushes, and more than 12 acres of trees” as of June of this year. Agricultural scientists and experts are warning everyone to remain cautious, even with the better statistics seen this year. At the moment, everyone is waiting for the EPA to make a decision on whether or not to keep the use of dicamba legal, or to completely ban the substance due to the massive number of complaints in the last two years. Regardless of that decision, it looks like farmers are at least able to breathe a little easier this year on the issue. Sources Barth, Brian. “Dicamba, Monsanto, and the Dangers of Pesticide Drift: AModern Farmer Explainer.” Modern Farmer. August 9th, 2016. http://modernfarmer.com/2016/08/dicamba/ Griffiths, Clinton. “As ‘Dicamba drift’ crop damage declines, will EPA re-approve controversial herbicide?” Genetic Literacy Project. September 24th, 2018. https:// geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/09/24/as- dicamba-drift-crop-damage-declines-will-epa- re-approve-controversial-herbicide/ Michel, Juliette. “US officials face growing pressure over dicamba herbicide use.” Phys. org. September 20th, 2018. https://phys.org/ news/2018-09-pressure-dicamba-herbicide. html Mohr, Paula. “Year 2 with dicamba better.” The Farmer. September 18th, 2018. https://www. the-farmer.com/soybean/year-2-dicamba- better Ungelsbee, Emily. “Herbicide Injury Reported.” The Progressive Farmer. June 21st, 2018. https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/ news/crops/article/2018/06/20/epa-weighs- dicamba-registrations-2