The Trump administration wants to allow soybean and cotton farmers to use a controversial weedkiller once again. Dicamba is known to drift off of fields where it's applied and damage neighboring crops.

Dicamba can stunt the growth of or kill plants that haven't been genetically modified to resist it. Dicamba is more volatile than other herbicides — which means it can turn airborne more easily and affect plants farther away.

Just one year after the Environmental Protection Agency first approved dicamba for use, complaints about the weedkiller shot up across the country.

Bill Freese is with the sustainable agriculture nonprofit Center for Food Safety. He said dicamba can damage non-resistant soybeans but also fruit crops and trees.

Freese said one of the reasons dicamba was banned in the

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