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Long-time friends and partners in CEF Farms, Chris Leible, left, and Chad Fullerton farm ground in Missouri and Arkansas, and continue to have problems with resistant pigweed on the Arkansas side of their operation because of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s State Plant Board’s May 25 cutoff date for dicamba use.Brad Robb
Cotton and soybean farmers in Arkansas are limited on when they can use dicamba again this year, and they are beyond frustrated because it is costing them money and time. Many are reverting to decades-old products to try to control relentless pigweed infestations.
For Chad Fullerton and Chris Leible, CEF Farms, who farm ground in Missouri and across the state line in Arkansas, the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s State Plant Board’s May 25 cutoff date for dicamba use has placed them, and so many other Arkansas farmers, in a very difficult farming position.