Minnesota’s growers will only have until June 20 to spray dicamba herbicide this year as the cut off date will remain intact. That determination was made by State Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen despite a request his office received form the Minnesota Soybean Grower’s Association. He says they wanted a one week extension in counties where only 50 percent of the planting had been completed.
He says they had a good response for those who were properly trained to apply dicamba but based on the number of drift complaints they received decided to leave the cut-off date unchanged.
Petersen says the number of complaints they received last year dropped off considerably following June 20.
Petersen says there are a number of herbicides that can be used in place of dicamaba to control weeds. He says those include: Pursuit, Classic, FirstRate, Flexstar, Cobra, Cadet and Ultra Blazer.
