President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency looks likely to once again allow the widespread use of a controversial weed killer that’s turned neighbor against neighbor in the Arkansas Delta.

Dicamba has been used in the United States since the 1970s, but using it “over the top” by spraying it on already sprouted soybeans and cotton didn’t begin until the 2010s.

The practice stirred controversy in farm country, especially in the Arkansas Delta, because of the chemical’s proclivity to drift onto neighboring fields, withering any plant not genetically engineered to be resistant. Complaints came not only from fellow farmers whose own crops suffered, but from naturalists who aimed to protect surrounding trees, prairies and wildlife. Thousands of complaints poured into the Arkansas State

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