United States Denied Motion To Dismiss Crop Loss Suit For Herbicide Crop Damage

POCATELLO, Idaho - A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho by a group of six Idaho farmers who allege reduced sugar beet, wheat and potato yields because of sulfonylureas herbicide drift from Bureau of Land Management land survived a defense motion to dismiss; the presiding judge denied the statute of limitations motion Feb. 1 (Grant Neibaur & Sons Farms, et al. v. United States, No. 11-159, D. Idaho; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12982). Full story on lexis.com