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SD Supreme Court: Wrong Herbicide Case Heads Back To Trial

SDPB | By Victoria Wicks

Published January 1, 2018 at 2:50 PM CST

The South Dakota Supreme Court has sent a lawsuit over sunflowers and herbicides back to the Fourth Circuit. A Corson County sunflower grower sued South Dakota Wheat Growers, saying a herbicide prescribed by an agronomist wiped out twelve hundred acres of sunflowers. But the high court says there are disputed issues of fact that need to be resolved by a jury.

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