On Friday morning, the Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) passed a
proposal to ban the spraying of dicamba in the state after April 15.
The passage was a quiet affair compared to a subcommittee hearing at
the capitol three days earlier, which came on the heels of a wintry
storm. At that hearing, lawmakers heard some three hours of impassioned
testimony from those wanting the April cutoff date and those wanting it
pushed into May or June. On a split vote, the subcommittee sent the
dicamba proposal package to the full ALC.
The cutoff proposal
first came to the legislature last fall following nearly 1,000
off-target dicamba drift complaints and numerous meetings of both the
Arkansas State Plant Board and a dicamba task force set up by the
governor.
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