How to Use dicamba in a Sentence

dicamba

noun

• The Plant Board's new rule allowing the use of in-crop dicamba through June 30 took effect about two weeks ago.
  — Stephen Steed, Arkansas Online, 22 May 2021
• This month, the battle over dicamba appeared to escalate.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
• The industry says dicamba and 2,4-D are long established.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• The team discovered a different process at work when the weeds encountered dicamba.
  — Natasha Gilbert, Wired, 19 Dec. 2020
• Several states have imposed new restrictions on dicamba use for 2018 to avoid a repeat of the damage.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
• The cutoff date is set to mitigate dicamba drift, which can damage other crops and vegetation in the area.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 27 Nov. 2019
• Her group and others released a report recently detailing the damage dicamba can cause other crops and plants even thousands of feet from where the weed killer is sprayed.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2020
• XtendiMax, a version of the herbicide dicamba made by Bayer AG , isn’t applied to crops aerially.
  — WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
• Farmers and agricultural researchers over the past several years have blamed dicamba spraying for damaging millions of acres of crops.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• Arkansas is one of several states where farmers have complained about dicamba drifting.
  — Andrew Demillo, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• The state later approved a temporary restriction that extended to other dicamba weed killers.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
• The furor surrounding the herbicide dicamba has quickly become the biggest controversy of its kind in U.S. agriculture.
  — Andrew Demillo, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2017
• Scientists who study weeds estimate that dicamba over the summer damaged more than 3 million acres of fields planted with soybeans that weren’t engineered to resist the chemical.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• Agricultural researchers estimate that millions of acres of crops have been damaged by drifting dicamba.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• The ongoing Bayer-Monsanto deal is playing out as Monsanto attempts to deal with reports that a new formulation of its weed-killer dicamba is curling the leaves of soybean plants in nearby fields.
  — Bartholomew D Sullivan, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2017
• The new limitations on dicamba use fall short of curbs some critics believe are necessary to avoid a repeat of that damage next year, when some projections show spraying of the potent chemical on U.S. farm fields could double.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• By 2020, scientists had confirmed the existence of dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• Monsanto in recent years launched a new herbicide based on the chemical dicamba, along with soybean and cotton seeds genetically engineered to withstand the spray.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• The full board and its pesticide committee have a backlog of some 700 pesticide violations, most involving dicamba.
  — Stephen Steed, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2021
• Department officials said Minnesota farmers would be barred from using the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant soybeans on June 20 of next year.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 27 Nov. 2019
• The Minnesota Department of Agriculture on Tuesday announced the cutoff date for using dicamba products during the 2020 growing season.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 27 Nov. 2019
• The situation is so bad that states including Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee have placed restrictions on dicamba use at various times during the summer.
  — Mario Parker, Bloomberg.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• Keeping dicamba on the market is imperative, Mr. Galloway said, to ensure farmers don’t overuse other weedkillers and reduce their effectiveness.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
• But farmers and crop researchers say dicamba, historically prone to drifting onto neighboring fields, has proved difficult to control.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• The most effective control will be accomplished with combination herbicides that contain the product dicamba.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2021
• Other products that contain several active ingredients (2,4-D, mecoprop, dicamba and carfentrazone) target a wide variety of weeds and may be used on all types of lawn grasses.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• The company alleged that it had been harmed by Plant Board decisions that restricted, or prevented, farmers' use of Monsanto's dicamba formulation.
  — Stephen Steed, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2019
• Additional training and certifications will be required for workers who apply dicamba to crops.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
• Concern about the herbicide drifting onto unprotected fields spawned lawsuits and prompted Arkansas and Missouri to impose temporary bans on dicamba.
  — Andrew Demillo, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2017
• Soybean farmers use dicamba where weeds have developed resistance to another herbicide, glyphosate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024