Legal Focus Shifts to Corteva’s Enlist Following Dicamba Ban

A parallel legal challenge to a ban on a widely used herbicide may end with that herbicide’s logical successor being removed from the market as well.

Likely Replacement: Agriculture experts say dicamba’s likely replacement would be Corteva Agriscience’s Enlist Duo, which contains a double package of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.

Enlist Challenge: However, Enlist is facing its own challenge in the Ninth Circuit, which on June 3 required soybean and cotton registrations for three dicamba-based products—Bayer AG’s XtendiMax, BASF SE’s Engenia, and Corteva’s FeXapan—to be canceled by July 31. Adam Allington has the ...