State blackberry farmers could soon have two “new” herbicide options for the 2025 growing season. Weed scientist and assistant professor of horticulture for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Matt Bertucci, recently published research that shows the herbicides 2,4-D choline and …
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State Plant Board Votes to Change Several Dicamba Regulations
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Arkansas State Plant Board has revised regulations concerning the use of dicamba in Arkansas. During a public meeting on Wednesday, the board, which is part of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, voted on proposed rule changes for the herbicide. …
Dicamba drifts from Plant Board to Legislature to the state’s farmers. Shawn Peebles, a third-generation farmer in Augusta, didn’t realize he had become the face of the movement against the use of dicamba in Arkansas until he learned his picture …
by Jeremy Peppas The Arkansas State Plant Board – after hours of public hearings, questions and answers from experts and numerous attempts – passed a motion that will allow dicamba usage through May 25, with a one-half mile buffer zone …
