EPA's latest rules seek to reduce off-target movement, yet legal challenges and concerns from growers continue.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In October 2021 I was a guest on a popular podcast to discuss my recently published book, "Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our ...

It only takes three generations for a demon seed to produce a flower of fire. In a greenhouse setting in 2015, Palmer amaranth developed full-blown dicamba resistance. As the herbicide dominoes fall, ...

Next year, things have to be different, says Forest City, Iowa, farmer Doug Tweeten. This past summer he, and thousands of U.S. farmers, walked into cupped, crinkled soybean fields with suspected ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 1, 2025) On June 30, Kyle Kunkler started work as deputy assistant administrator for pesticides in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and ...

Late planting and high temperatures in the Midwest are raising concerns of dicamba damage to non-dicamba-tolerant soybeans and specialty crops as growers struggle to meet state and federal deadlines ...

Nearly 800 comments submitted to EPA on its dicamba ecological and human health risk assessments split widely on the herbicide’s value to American agriculture. Broadly speaking, comments broke down ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Environmental experts are once again asking for changes to be made to the label of an herbicide that ...

By Renee Hickman CHICAGO, July 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court handed a major legal victory to German agrichemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer last month when it reined in thousands of ...

A decision this month by the U.S. District Court of Arizona has overturned the Environmental Protection Agency's 2020 reapproval of three dicamba-containing products produced by agricultural companies ...

Dicamba is a benzoic acid herbicide used on soil, plants, and leaves. It's also used to get rid of broad-leaved weeds. Dicamba is a water-soluble pesticide. It's an effective weed-control herbicide ...

Many agronomic weeds are developing resistance to available herbicides, making them harder and harder to kill. With few effective chemicals left and no new herbicide classes on the horizon, farmers ...