Farmers experiencing damage from dicamba drift this season are facing uncertainty in regards to what losses might be covered by insurance. Rex Wilcox with Stalcup Ag in Storm Lake, Iowa says so far the Risk Management Agency has determined federal crop insurance won’t cover dicamba related losses due to drift or related application issues.

He says they’ve talked to retailers and coops and they’re saying the herbicide manufacturers will stand behind the dicamba related loss if there was not application error. And he stresses farmers may not know if there was a yield loss until harvest.

Wilcox says the best course of action for farmers is to document the losses and turn it into either crop insurance or the agent handling your farm liability insurance policy.

He says Monsanto and the other companies that introduced this technology to the marketplace need to get the problem figured out and fixed before next season.