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Drifting Pesticides and Tree Shopping

Drifting Pesticides and Tree Shopping

Tue Dec 9, 2025

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Wisconsin soybean farmers are pushing the EPA to finalize rules allowing a controversial herbicide back on the market. Dicamba is used on soybeans and cotton that has been genetically modified to resist the weedkiller. But it has a tendency to get into water supplies and drift in the air, hurting other plants like orchards, gardens and trees. The EPA will now require the Dicamba to be mixed other chemicals to help stop drifting. If you’re still searching for a Christmas tree and are wondering which is better for the environment -- real or plastic. Turns out, it’s real. Experts say plastic trees are usually shipped thousands of miles from China and eventually wind up in landfills. And for every real tree that gets taken home, farmers replant 1 to 3 trees in its place. Right now on the Defender Podcast – meet the Wisconsin native who is foraging 100% of his food for an entire year. Listen at cleanwisconsin.org or wherever you get your podcasts.

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