Easing alongside his farmland on the afternoon of June 7, Charles Johnson slammed his brakes and jolted his truck into park when he saw the dicamba cobra heads. Even from his cab and across the turn ...

Environmental experts are once again asking for changes to be made to the label of an herbicide that’s been used for years.

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 ...

New federal rules for dicamba aim to help cotton and soybean farmers control weeds. But the herbicide, which can kill other ...

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 ...

US President Donald Trump's administration on Friday re-approved the use of pesticide dicamba for spraying on top of genetically modified cotton and soybean crops, drawing swift backlash from ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Drones can now detect subtle soybean canopy damage from dicamba at one ten-thousandth of the herbicide's label rate—simulating vapor drift—eight days after application. This advancement in remote ...

For years we’ve heard about the ills of Monsanto’s genetically engineered Roundup Ready corn and soybeans, but what is dicamba and when did they start engineering crops to be resistant to it? For that ...