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MU Crop Conference: All things dicamba

A leading university weed scientist says 2018, overall, was not a better year for off-site dicamba damage in Missouri and his concerns remain. Dr. Kevin Bradley says although Missouri will not have a 2019 state label, he has concerns about the EPA’s federal label saying he believes the risk is too great to spray dicamba in June and July.

As more farmers adopt the technology to avoid drift damage of non-dicamba soybeans he says other crops will remain at risk “Grapes, tomatoes, peaches, apples – we’re never going to have a solution for that. And I haven’t found some magical piece of the puzzle yet that says this is how we can use dicamba without it moving off site.”

Until the puzzle is solved, Bradley says he’ll remain concerned about dicamba volatility and drift, “I’d love to be able to kill waterhemp that doesn’t have all this baggage and, so far, I haven’t seen it.”

AUDIO: Dr. Kevin Bradley at the University of Missouri Crop Conference in Columbia, MO ~