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Business Reporter Alana Edgin reviews recent Lubbock area business news and hints at upcoming articles in the weekly Around the Hub column.
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Business Reporter Alana Edgin reviews recent Lubbock area business news and hints at upcoming articles in the weekly Around the Hub column.
Texas grape growers believe herbicide carried through the air from nearby cotton farms is killing their crops.
An herbicide used in cotton fields is devastating vineyards on the High Plains. Grape growers are suing the companies that make it.
The lawsuit says some family-owned vineyards report losses of more than 90% due to herbicide drift.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On June 4, 2021, 57 Texas High Plains wine grape growers filed suit in Jefferson County District Court seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Bayer-Monsanto and BASF. The suit alleges that the chemical giants sold a defective genetically modified cotton seed system to Texas farmers, featuring a highly volatile weedkiller that moved miles off-target and crippled scores of vineyards across the state. The suit says that in recent years, volatilizing dicamba applied to genetically modified cotton crops has damaged up to...