Phipps Commentary: How to Fix Dicamba

John Phipps offers commentary on how to fix the dicamba drift problem for 2018.

On both sides of the dicamba issue, Arkansas growers are forced to walk a high-wire in a farming atmosphere fraught with fears, threats and entrenched opinions.
On both sides of the dicamba issue, Arkansas growers are forced to walk a high-wire in a farming atmosphere fraught with fears, threats and entrenched opinions.
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Can the issues with off-target dicamba be fixed for the 2018 growing season? Is the answer more dicamba? John Phipps offers up his solutions to the dicamba problem on U.S. Farm Report.

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