By Bryce Gray, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — Top-selling forms of dicamba, the weedkiller that has ignited widespread controversy across agriculture for much of the last decade, can no longer be sprayed over the tops of crops across the U.S., according to a federal court ruling issued in Arizona.
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