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The Fight Over A Weedkiller, In The Fields And In The Courts

Short Wave

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A federal court recently ordered farmers to stop spraying one of the country's most widely used herbicides, dicamba. NPR's food and agriculture correspondent Dan Charles tells us the ruling has turned the world of Midwestern agriculture upside down. Then the Environmental Protection Agency came out with its own order.

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0:30.8

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0:36.4

Maddie Saffai here with NPR's Food and Agriculture Correspondent,

0:39.7

Dan Charles. Welcome back to the show, Dan.

0:42.7

Hi, Maddie.

0:43.9

So a few months ago, you told us about kind of a huge fight

0:48.0

raging in the world of agriculture over a pesticide called

0:52.0

dicamba. It's one of the countries most widely used,

0:55.3

but arguably one of the most resented weed killers.

0:59.4

And a federal court recently weighed in on this.

1:02.6

Right. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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