Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 6/30/17


For tobacco farmers, it is very important to do everything possible to avoid herbicide contamination. “Herbicides can certainly drift up to a mile,” he says. “If your neighbor down the road is using one of the new soybean insecticides (containing 2,4-D or dicamba or a similar chemical), you need to know it. If he sprays in a wind, you can be in a bind in a hurry,” says flue-cured grower Tim Yarbrough of Prospect Hill, N.C.

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