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 ...

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 ...

An herbicide may "drift" from the agricultural fields where it's sprayed and harm weeds that grow at the edge of the fields, impacting pollinators. Dicamba was developed in the late 1950s and first ...

(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 ...

EPA is proposing to re-register dicamba herbicide for over-the-top application to cotton and soybeans, with restrictions intended to limit ecological harm. Dicamba has been blamed for significant ...

Bayer Crop Science is trying again to get the drift-prone herbicide dicamba back on the US market for use on soybeans and cotton crops that are genetically modified to tolerate it. In response to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A June 3 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacates a US registration allowing farmers to spray dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton with three versions of the herbicide. The ...

This month's $265 million verdict over Monsanto Co.'s dicamba herbicide sprouted more legal trouble for the agricultural giant, which is appealing nearly $2.4 billion in Roundup verdicts, but the ...