How to Use dicamba in a Sentence

dicamba

noun
  • The team discovered a different process at work when the weeds encountered dicamba.
    — Natasha Gilbert, Wired, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The agency said concerns about dicamba drifting to places where it was not intended are real and must be managed.
    — Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The agency said dicamba was critical for farmers who would otherwise have their crops threatened by fast growing weeds.
    — Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Arkansas is one of several states where farmers have complained about dicamba drifting.
    — Andrew Demillo, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Agricultural researchers estimate that millions of acres of crops have been damaged by drifting dicamba.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 14 June 2019
  • Several states have imposed new restrictions on dicamba use for 2018 to avoid a repeat of the damage.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • The state later approved a temporary restriction that extended to other dicamba weed killers.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Grape vines are susceptible to damage from many common broadleaf herbicides, such as 2,4-D, dicamba and others.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 15 June 2023
  • To fight off hard-to-kill weeds, many farmers now layer in additional herbicides — such as dicamba and 2,4-D — that were far less common two decades ago.
    — Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Soybean farmers use dicamba where weeds have developed resistance to another herbicide, glyphosate.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Additional training and certifications will be required for workers who apply dicamba to crops.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Some farmers illegally sprayed dicamba before federal regulators approved versions that were designed to be less volatile.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2017
  • Monsanto was also challenging an earlier rule that specifically targeted its brand of dicamba.
    — Andrew Demillo, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • XtendiMax, a version of the herbicide dicamba made by Bayer AG , isn’t applied to crops aerially.
    — WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • Environmental groups said dicamba drift has damaged immense acreage, devastating vegetable farms, trees and other critical plants.
    — Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Farmers are already battling against epidemics of weeds that have developed genetic resistance to multiple herbicides, including glyphosate and dicamba.
    — Natasha Gilbert, Wired, 19 Dec. 2020
  • By 2020, scientists had confirmed the existence of dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • These chemicals typically contain three herbicides called 2,4-D, mecoprop, and dicamba.
    — Michele Petry, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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