Arkansas Supreme Court Halts Farmers' Access to Dicamba

A group of Arkansas farmers had little more than a week of access to dicamba before the state Supreme Court intervened on Wednesday, April 25. Nearly 200 farmers had gained temporary access to new dicamba herbicides after three judges in Clay, Mississippi and Phillips counties issued temporary restraining orders (TROs) of the state's in-season dicamba ban in the third week of April.Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge quickly filed appeals in the Phillips County and Mississippi County cases and asked for "expedited stays" -- or halts -- of the restraining orders until those appeals are decided. Wednesday, the Supreme Court agreed to issue those stays. A state judge also denied an additional request for a restraining order filed by 13 farmers in Greene County last week.For now, only 38 farmers continue to have access to dicamba under a Clay County restraining order still in effect.