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EEEK!

About a year ago we learned that @Bayer asked EPA to approve the new use of #dicamba on the company's GE corn

EPA has a nasty habit of not publicly posting pesticide applications, so we were in the dark about the application rates the company has proposed

Not anymore
Hidden on page 145 of an application to USDA for approval of its new #KillerCorn (resistance to 5 herbicides), Bayer said it has asked the EPA to increase the maximum application rate in corn from 0.75 lbs/acre per year to 2.0 lbs/acres per year.

That's a lot of extra dicamba!
That more than doubling of the max application rate for corn is in addition to the massive increase we've already seen on soybeans and cotton

This will fundamentally alter Midwest landscapes and essentially prohibit cultivation of anything other than commodity crops
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