SD Won’t Adjust Cutoff Dates for Dicamba Applications

This past year, the South Dakota Department of Agriculture received well over 100 calls about dicamba, but there were only 23 official complaints. Out of those 23 investigations, there was only one valid drift complaint. State Agriculture Secretary Hunter Roberts testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee and said he is disappointed the federal government has not ruled the dicamba registration. “They acted like, to us, that they may have more information to provide by February or March. From our perspective, we didn’t have anything pointing to a change in rules.” Roberts said South Dakota won’t be making any changes to the dicamba application dates until after this next growing season. “EPA might, but the (South Dakota) Department isn’t going to do anything because we don’t have that science to lead us to change.”