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Earlier window for dicamba not showing much impact

The dry weather has stressed many farmers in the Midwest, but the lack of rain seems to have created a silver lining in terms of fewer weeds.

“For control it’s been a highly variable year,” said Meaghan Anderson, Iowa State University Extension field agronomist based in central Iowa. “I feel like it was a struggle in a lot of fields but soybean fields across our area seem to be holding waterhemp back fairly well for now.”

The EPA’s label amendments in February created an early cutoff date for over-the-top (OTT) spraying of dicamba around the Midwest, but a fairly quick planting season led to few problems in terms of application.

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Big Shelf Cloud Sights & Sounds over Regina, SK - July 2, 2026

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Big Shelf Cloud Sights & Sounds over Regina, SK - July 2, 2026 | A line of severe thunderstorms developed in southern Saskatchewan on July 2, 2026. A large shelf cloud rolled through the city of Regina in the early evening hours as the storm brought some heavy downpours.

This footage was captured facing west from east of Regina and contains clips of lightning strikes, long rolling thunder rumbles and a timelapse of the shelf cloud as it advanced eastward.