As one of the first state association meetings held each year, the annual Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association (IFCA) event in Peoria, IL, is a good gauge as to what ag retailers will spend their upcoming growing season focusing on (view slideshow above). Not surprisingly, this year looks to be a follow-up of sorts to one of the major issues of 2017 – dicamba and off-target movement. During the three-day IFCA meeting, no less than half-a-dozen speakers looked at the dicamba question in one fashion or another.

 

“I hope, as an industry, we are not taking our eye off the ball when it comes to stewardship practices for dicamba application,” said Dr. Vince Davis of BASF. “Bottom line – we can’t have a repeat of what happened in 2017.”

 

Dr. Bryan Young of Purdue University agreed. “Dicamba-resistant crops are a necessary tool for managing resistant weeds in 2018, but we as an industry need to learn how to use them better,” said Young.

 

Click Here to read more.