Dicamba use in `20 on board agenda
(WorldNews Business)

In what is now an annual ritual, the state Plant Board will take another step today in deciding how dicamba can be used on certain Arkansas crops next year. The board`s pesticide committee last week recommended allowing the herbicide`s in-crop use through May 31 -- five days longer than what was allowed this year. The meeting is set for 9:30 a.m. at the board`s headquarters in west Little Rock. Farmers faced a May 26 ban this year, yet the Plant Board has received more than 200 complaints of damage, many of them filed deep into the summer, leading officials to believe dicamba has been sprayed illegally. Work this year by Audubon Arkansas and a lawsuit filed in late June illustrate warnings...