NPR, the National Public Radio network, features a story on agrochemical giant Monsanto’s fight to utilize a controversial weedkiller, dicamba, in the state of Arkansas.
The Arkansas State Plant Board has severely regulated the use of the herbicide in the state, noting it can damage certain soybeans, melons, tomatoes and other crops in hot weather conditions.
You can read the story or listen to the segment from yesterday’s “Morning Edition” on NPR by clicking here.