There’s concern dicamba might be snatched away from soybean growers during the heart of spraying season again.

Minnesota farmer Bob Worth, who serves on the Minnesota Soybean Grower’s Dicamba Task Force, tells Brownfield he’s hearing the Ninth Circuit Court is considering cancelling registrations for the widely used herbicide like it did last June.

“They’re after all kinds of products, so you never know when they’re going to come back. And if they feel that the EPA last year did not comply with what they requested, they could come back and do it all over again.”

The Appeals Court issued a ruling June 3rd, 2020 that immediately cancelled the registrations of XtendiMax, FeXapan, and Engenia dicamba herbicides. 

The next week EPA announced growers and applicators could use existing stocks, consistent with previously approved labels.

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