Farmers Worry About Weedy Fields After Dicamba Court Ruling (1)

Soybean and cotton farmers across the country are worried they could lose their preferred pesticide following a ruling by the Ninth Circuit that threw out federal herbicide registrations.

The Environmental Protection Agency must vacate the registrations of three dicamba herbicides: XtendiMax, made by Bayer AG; FeXapan, made by Corteva; and Engenia, made by <-rte-company>BASF SE, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

According to agriculture experts, roughly half of all the soybeans planted in the U.S. are planted with seeds that are genetically engineered to tolerate dicamba, which then allows farmers to spray the ...