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Midwest Farmers Prepare For More Dicamba in 2018

Harvest Public Media is a consortium of public media news outlets covering agriculture and other issues affecting the rural Midwest.
Harvest Public Media is a consortium of public media news outlets covering agriculture and other issues affecting the rural Midwest.

For soybean farmers across the country, 2017 will be remembered as a historically destructive year due to the pesticide called dicamba, a weed killer that’s been blamed for more than 3.6 million acres of damaged soybeans. Harvest Public Media’s Kristofor Husted reports farmers already are planning for the 2018 planting season with an eye to protecting their crops from whatever pesticides their neighbors spray.


Harvest Public Media is a consortium of public radio and TV stations reporting on agriculture and other issues affecting the rural Midwest. Learn more at HarvestPublicMedia.org.

 

Harvest Public Media is a reporting collaboration focused on issues of food, fuel and field. Based at KCUR in Kansas City, Harvest covers these agriculture-related topics through an expanding network of reporters and partner stations throughout the Midwest. Global demand for food and fuel is rising, and the push and pull for resources has serious ramifications for our country’s economic prosperity. What’s more, we all eat, so we all have a stake in how our food is produced In the Midwest, in particular, today’s emerging agenda for agriculture is headlined by climate change, food safety, biofuel production, animal welfare, water quality, and sustainability. By examining these local, regional and national issues and their implications with in-depth and unbiased reporting, Harvest is filling a critical information void. Most Harvest Public Media stories begin with radio — regular reports are aired on our member stations in the Midwest. But Harvest also explores issues through online analyses, television documentaries and features, podcasts, photography, video, blogs and social networking. We are committed to the highest journalistic standards. Click here to read our ethics policy.