So fun fact: Arkansas literally banned Dicamba in the state because it killed a massive chunk of the soybean yields. It was a huge legal battle and the farmers won. Dicamba also killed a lot of other stuff, including other crops.
This admin undermined that.
I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.
popsci.com
A chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreading
New formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields