By Mike Barrett
The 2 largest independent seed sellers in the United States, Beck’s Hybrids and Stine Seed, are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban farmers from spraying dicamba herbicide during upcoming summers.
Spraying would be limited to the springtime, before crops are planted, preventing farmers from using the weedkiller on Monsanto-made soybeans genetically engineered to withstand dicamba.
In the summer of 2017, farmers planted mind-boggling amounts of dicamba-resistant soybeans. This resulted in dicamba drifting onto nearby farms where the genetically modified seeds aren’t grown, damaging an estimated 3.6 million acres of traditionally-grown soybeans – 4% of all U.S. plantings.
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Source: naturalsociety.com
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