I like the Enlist program of a pre down, go Liberty and Enlist late, later than most other products labeled. However, last year the neighbor nailed me, first you play detective to figure out which one of 5 got you. The best neighbor of the bunch owned up to it and had insurance, Bayer and IDALs were out, both said I had "slight damage" ..actually the Bayer report was a little bit more on my side, than IDALs investigation. But hell, if Extend drift on beans isn`t bad enough, you can get DiFlexx drift from corn.
The neighbor said his insurance would require me to harvest strips to compare, my seed dealer said what he should do is "swap fields" that would be fair. The neighbor offered to write a small settlement "not to offend you". At the end I said "forget about it" but my Enlist endeavor last year ended up costing me $40,000.
The cupped beans they call "slight damage" it only takes a tiny amount of dicamba in the plant to curl your beans. One of the secondary effects is, July 1 your beans are curled and sick, not shading the rows...so what do you do? Spray 2,4-D on your sick beans, then I suppose in court they`d say "you did the damage spraying late!!!" . I made the decision right then to plant Extend in the future as a defensive mechanism if nothing else and hire the elevator to spray.
I`m signed up for the Dicamba class action suit so I might get 5 bucks a acre.
