dicamba Archives - Grainews

Vyconic soybeans are expected to be released in Canada for the 2027 growing season.

New Bayer genetics to open up soybean herbicide tolerance

Bayer’s Vyconic genetics to be integrated with the company’s soybean varieties in coming years

By Jeff Melchior March 6, 2025

If all goes according to plan, by 2027 soybean farmers throughout Canada will have new soybean varieties with tolerance to five key herbicides. Bayer Crop Science Canada on Monday announced its Vyconic soybean trait set, calling it “a leap forward in weed control, enabling farmers to manage their fields with unparalleled flexibility.” Vyconic features tolerance […] Read more

Crops, General

Pesticides under fire in U.S.

Recent court decisions have threatened farmers' abilities to use some herbicides

By GFM Network News March 15, 2024

Pesticides are increasingly under attack in the United States and that is keeping farm leaders awake at night.

Ed Usset, grain marketing economist from the University of Minnesota, addresses the 2024 Commodity Classic. Photo: Sean Pratt

General

Commodity Classic day one: Farmers concerned about EPA’s herbicide strategy

Farm bill, USDA crop forecasts on American farmers' minds at the Houston farm show

By GFM Network News March 1, 2024

Day one of the 2024 Commodity Classic is in the books and a few interesting themes emerged from the annual gathering of U.S. corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers.

General, Reuters

US allows farmers to use existing supplies of dicamba weedkillers

An Arizona court decision vacated the EPA's registration of dicamba-based herbicides

By Reuters, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News February 14, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that farmers can use some existing supplies of herbicides based on the chemical dicamba, despite a federal court ruling last week that halted sprayings.

Crops, General

U.S. dicamba ruling won’t touch Canada: Bayer

Thousands of American farmers who have already bought the herbicide now in a bind after court bans over-the-top use

By Robert Arnason, GFM Network News February 9, 2024

An Arizona court decision that essentially prohibits American farmers from using dicamba for over-the-top spraying on soybeans and cotton will not stop Canadian growers from using the herbicide this year, says Bayer Crop Science Canada.

General, Reuters

US court cancels approvals for widely used dicamba weedkillers

EPA violated procedures mandating public input, judge rules

By Reuters, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News February 7, 2024

A U.S. court has nullified the government's latest approvals of certain agricultural weedkillers sold by Bayer, BASF and Syngenta, fueling uncertainty among farmers who spray the products on soybeans and cotton genetically engineered to resist them.

Crops

Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness

Losing battle with weeds adds pressures to farmers already stressed by inflation, extreme weather

By Reuters, Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News January 16, 2024

Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer BAYGn.DE and Corteva CTVA.N can develop new ones to fight them.

BASF’s dicamba production facility in Beaumont, Tex. (BASF.com)

Crops, Reuters

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

By GFM Network News July 7, 2022

Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a federal jury was wrongly told […] Read more

File photo of a dicamba-damaged soybean plant. (Reuters)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News December 21, 2021

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is assessing whether dicamba herbicide can be sprayed safely on soybean and cotton plants genetically engineered to resist the chemical, without the procedure posing “unreasonable risks” to other crops, an agency official said Tuesday. Farmers and scientists for years have reported problems with dicamba drifting away […] Read more

Soybean fields are inspected in a University of Wisconsin research trial on dicamba drift at Arlington, Wisc. on Aug. 2, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Tom Polansek)

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Bayer, Corteva in ‘two-dog battle’ over U.S. soy market

Companies' GM soybeans jockey for market share

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News April 10, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — Bayer is launching a new genetically modified soybean in the United States, striking back against rival Corteva in a bid to retain its dominant position supplying seeds to the $40 billion U.S. soy industry. Billions of dollars are on the table for companies producing a growing variety of seeds for soybeans, […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News