With Dicamba Canceled, Legal Focus Now Shifts to Corteva’s Enlist

With the upcoming ban on the most widely used herbicide for soybeans and cotton still being felt across farm country, a parallel legal challenge may end with its logical successor being removed from the market as well.

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.

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 ...