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Posted: January 24, 2018

Dicamba Debate Lingers in Arkansas Courts

The fight over Arkansas’ effort to ban an herbicide that farmers say has drifted onto crops where it wasn’t applied, causing widespread damage, is far from over, with attention now shifting to a manufacturer’s lawsuit.

Posted: January 12, 2018

Robotic Weeders: To a Farm Near You?

The growing popularity of robotic weeders for specialty crops has grown partly out of necessity, says Steven Fennimore, an extension specialist at the University of California, Davis. Specialty crops are vegetables like lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, and onions.

Posted: January 2, 2018

5 Tips to Limit Off-Target Dicamba Movement

Source credit: Westernfarmpress.com

Farmers and the agriculture industry can’t stand another year like 2017 in terms of off-target movement of herbicides,

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Posted: January 2, 2018

New “National Pesticide Safety Education Month” Will Focus on Safe Pesticide Handling

WESTMINSTER, Colorado – January 2, 2018 – Today scientists with the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) join with the American Phytopathological Society (APS) and the Entomological Society of America (ESA) to announce the first annual National Pesticide Safety Education Month that will be held in February,

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