Arkansas Board Passes Dicamba Ban

The Arkansas State Plant Board voted June 23 to pass a proposed emergency rule to ban the use of in-crop dicamba, with an exemption for pastureland, and to expedite the rule increasing civil penalties for misuse of the common pesticide.

Following the conclusion of a special board meeting, the proposed rule passed by a 9-5 tally, Arkansas Agriculture Department spokeswoman Adriane Barnes told Bloomberg BNA.

The rule was proposed and approved by the plant board’s pesticide committee in response to a growing number of complaints about misuse of the broad-spectrum herbicide and the chemical’s drift onto neighboring farmlands, where ...