Good article from DTN:
"State departments of forestry, natural resources and agriculture pass responsibility for non-soybean dicamba injury back and forth between each other, like a hot potato. State regulators are struggling to keep up with the pace of complaints, leading to long delays and unresolved investigations. Even state investigations that find a pesticide applicator at fault can only fine the applicator -- not compensate the victim. Laboratories are still learning how to test for dicamba residue effectively, and at what levels. Unless an applicator was flagrantly off label, insurance companies maintain that they are not responsible when dicamba volatilizes and moves off-target. The companies who manufacture the new dicamba herbicides insist that volatility is rare and dicamba injury unusual.
At the end of the day, most of the property owners interviewed face serious financial losses that they will never recover. Some wonder if they will ever be able to grow vegetables or trees in their patch of countryside again if dicamba-tolerant soybean acres and their accompanying dicamba use continues to swell.
"At what point do these rural audiences say I've had enough?" said Bill Johnson, a weed scientist with Purdue University. "This is giving all of agriculture a black eye."
It's like Roundup and Monsanto. No doubt they have caused health problems world wide. Until corporations stop running governments, there is little redress. Would like to see some radical environmentalists bomb those plants that produce Roundup into dust and continue to do so until Monsanto gives up.
Why just stop at Roundup
We probably have 50 or more chemicals on the shelf that get sprayed world wide
In Canada we have far fewer choices than USA farmers and Mexico will have more than USA or Canada to use
Then there are the traits bred into the plant to kill worms etc that attack the plant
Why not lead the charge for complete organic farming in all USA and Canada
Then go to china, Russia, Brazil, India, Australia
EU and you would have most of the world production chemical free
We have world grain surplus, so if everybody was equal in production, then would that not be good
World population has peaked so this false story of feeding more and more people is not true
What will happen is increased food surplus
Granted we live longer
Problem is it will never happen, at least in our
life time
Of course, we grow sweet corn
400 acres
If you roasted the corn in the husk and then shucked the husk and saw a big fat worm inside, munching on the corn, is that what you want
So:
Who decides the best way to grow our food