About three-fourths of Shane Susie’s 80-acre soybean field was damaged after getting hit with dicamba that drifted over his crops from neighboring fields. 在 DesMoinesRegister.com 上写道 Donnelle Eller.
The herbicide also savaged his family’s trees, flowers and vegetable patch.
“We’re not eating anything out of it this year,” said the 30-year-old who farms near Kingsley in northwest Iowa.
He estimates his soybean damage losses at $15,000. With drought worries and low corn and soybean prices, “it will be a tough year.” he said. “It makes a challenging year more challenging.”
苏西和其他中西部农民卷入了围绕新麦草畏版本对种植者使用是否安全的全国性辩论。
密苏里大学的一份报告显示，在全国范围内，有 2,242 名农民表示麦草畏已经破坏了大约 310 万英亩的土地。
爱荷华州农业领导人正在调查今年创纪录的 258 起因滥用农药造成的农作物损失报告。 150,000 英亩土地上约有 100 起投诉与麦草畏有关。