Two upcoming town hall meetings will feature a scientist and a law firm to discuss information on the recent dicamba drift ruling. 

Willcross Seed will present “Legal remedies for those affected by Dicamba Drift.” 

Randy Baker is the General Manager of Willcross Seed at King City and Chillicothe. Baker said one of the speakers will be University of Missouri Weed Scientist Dr. Kevin Bradley. 

“He’ll be discussing the effects of dicamba, what it is and what it can do. He’s been studying the effects of dicamba for the last several years,” Baker said. “He’s found where they do have volatilization and he’s been going all over the state, really, looking at this stuff and determining what has caused it.” 

The law firm of Murphy, Taylor, Siemens and Elliott will also be at the town hall meeting.

“They’ll be explaining, whether it be an applicator or the farmer himself, just what their legal remedies are for going forward if they’ve had damage,” Baker said. “It doesn’t have to be a customer of Willcross, it doesn’t even have to be a farmer. There’s been some incidents where people’s fruit trees and yards and ornamental shrubs and so forth have been destroyed by this.”

The town hall meetings will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the Stoney Creek Inn in St. Joseph and from 1 to 3 p.m. on Friday at the Days Inn Hotel Conference Room in Chillicothe.

For more information or to RSVP, contact Willcross Seed at (660) 535-4444.