Why dicamba complaints dropped in Illinois.

Apply golden and silver rules to pesticide use Matt Montgomery, field agronomist for Pioneer Hi-Bred, says the ag industry should draw its attention to the golden and silver rules. "When you're talking about dicamba in a state where you're growing about 10 million acres of the most sensitive plant species to dicamba movement, no volatility and low volatility have very different outcomes", says Aaron Hager, crop sciences professor at the University of Illinois. Illinois dicamba complaints are the lowest they've been since the product's approval for use on soybeans in 2017. [Extracted from the article]