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After three weeks of argument, a seven person jury in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is deliberating whether Monsanto and BASF are responsible for damages on a peach orchard in southeast Missouri.

With stakes in the fight against resistant weeds at an all-time high, Bayer is adding a new tool to farmers’ toolboxes in coming years. The company says it will introduce a new herbicide mode of action.

The trial is at the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri Southeastern Division and centers on whether damage to a peach farm is from dicamba drift or natural causes including a spreading soil fungus.

As Bayer continues its mitigation to reach a settlement, Dow Jones is reporting the company could settle its glyphosate (Roundup) legal cases for a sum around $10 billion.

Joining the fight against these foes is FMC’s Authority Edge pre-plant, pre-emergent herbicide for use in soybeans, sunflowers and dry shelled peas.

Weeds like henbit and marestail have a wide window for control.

Pests and soil conditions fade with out-of-control weeds.

If you have yield or monetary damages you want covered by the applicator at fault, you have to take the battle to court or work out a recovery payment with the applicator yourself.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) will provide additional label restrictions for dicamba in 2020—these are restrictions in addition to the federal EPA label.

The Oct. 15, 2019 trial for Winston versus Monsanto in St. Louis will not begin as scheduled. A status conference has been scheduled for Feb. 2020.

If you farm some of the 19.4 million acres that didn’t get planted this year, get ready for a battle against problem weeds.

In the midst of thousands of lawsuits claiming glyphosate causes cancer, EPA announced it will not approve glyphosate product labels that claim the herbicide is known to cause cancer.

Glyphosate—better known as Roundup—has been under fire for the past several years. Shareholders are squeezing executives for more information and solutions as the spotlight shines on the herbicide from many angles.

Many gardens are thriving with all the rain, which prompted John Phipps to give a much needed reminder this summer as fields are sprayed for weeds.

Farmers need to make a management plan for their prevented plant acres.

Farmers across the Midwest know all too well the pervasiveness of waterhemp. One weed turns into two, and eventually catapults into a dominating force if left unchecked in fields.

Eurofins BioDiagnostics Inc. recently introduced a new method to detect waterhemp seeds—even differentiating it from other Amaranthus.

As you peer into corn and soybean fields across the Corn Belt and Mid-South you’re hopefully seeing crop seedlings poke through soil. However, delayed planting could mean weeds, rather than crops, are poking through.

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) again found glyphosate is safe when used according to label requirements.

This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved Syngenta’s Tavium Plus VaporGrip Technology herbicide. This is a group 4, dicamba, formulation premixed with S-metolachlor to provide residual control.

With spraying season upon farmers it’s important to make accurate record keeping a priority. In the case of restricted use pesticides, hold on to those records for at least three years.

In the most recent Farm Journal Pulse, farmers talked about dicamba—if they plan to use it, and how. Results show that 44% of farmers plan to apply dicamba or have it applied on their farms.

BASF and its licensee partners are rolling out LL-GT27 soybean trait in a variety of maturities and varieties this year across the U.S.

The evasive weed outsmarts yet another active ingredient in the HPPD inhibitor class

Auxin herbicides are devastating to sensitive crops—know your risk

In a world where resistant weeds run rampant, one chemical company is bringing relief to corn, soybean and rice farmers. FMC will introduce a novel rice herbicide and a corn and soybean herbicide.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it will renew the label for over-the-top application of dicamba in soybeans and cotton through December 2020.

Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would renew the label for over-the-top use of dicamba in soybeans and cotton through 2020.

Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would extend over-the-top use of dicamba in cotton and soybeans until Dec. 20, 2020.

Bayer AG won a tentative ruling slashing the lion’s share of a $289 million verdict in the first trial over claims that Roundup weed killer causes cancer and a judge is considering a new trial.

Bayer AG is trying to undo a $289 million verdict over Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller that it blames on misinformation fed to a jury.

The new varieties include tolerance to glyphosate, glufosinate and isoxaflutole (an HPPD inhibitor)—though the latter is not approved for over-the-top use in soybeans.

An eastern Asian weed found its way into Iowa this year. Mile-a-minute weed is invasive and has been found as far west as Indiana and Kentucky with one outlier in Oregon. This is the plant’s first appearance in Iowa.

As of July 15, farmers, homeowners and others filed 605 official complaints of suspected dicamba damage with state departments of agriculture. That number reflects soybeans and all other specialty crops.

16% of the plants contained genes stacked for six-way herbicide resistance (2,4-D, atrazine, chlorimuron, fomesafen, glyphosate and mesotrione.)

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat plants containing a trait developed by Monsanto in southern Alberta.

From nozzle tips, to clean out there is much to remember about your sprayer—here are a few steps to get you off on the right foot.

With a half-a-million dollar grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, University of Illinois researchers are investigating genetic control of waterhemp and Palmer amaranth.

If the herbicide leads to less habitat for the butterfly its use could be restricted further.

U.S. District Court Judge William Shubb issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting California from implementing its Proposition 65 labeling requirement for glyphosate.

Winter is when alfalfa plants go nearly dormant in most of the country, growing extremely slow unable to provide enough competition for weeds.