Garrett and Ellery Hawkins
The use of the newest dicamba herbicides is a luxury according to two Illinois farmers who say they hope it stays on the market.
“I’m concerned about how they are going to regulate the spraying of dicamba in the future because it works very, very well. I would really hate for them to either take that away or get it so restricted that it isn’t useful.”
Garrett Hawkins grows corn and soybeans with his father Ellery in the Mississippi River bottoms of Illinois where they are struggling with resistant weeds.
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