Acre Pesticide Science 
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
While the current administration may blame woke DEI environmentalists for the blazes, science shows that the climate crisis contributed to the severity of the damage. It also necessitates petroleum-based pesticides, from fungicides to herbicides, to ward off weeds and stop sprouting. The same is true for plastic used in food packaging.
World Agri-Tech
MARCH 10, 2025
Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield. In the United States alone, farmers apply $16 billion worth of pesticides and more than $30 billion in fertilizers annually, yet the ag-industry lacks critical insight on where all this value ends up.
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The Equation
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system. While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
OCTOBER 24, 2024
We are all more from science,” she says in her German-accented English. If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” million, this time with money from one of the largest retailers of pesticides in the world. Something potentially very big.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 9, 2024
And, as the increasingly salty sea recedes, tens of thousands more acres of playa will be exposedas will decades of pesticides already trapped in the sediments from past farm runoff. This isnt rocket science, Lyons said. The seas shrinking footprint mirrors mandatory conservation cuts.
NASDA
OCTOBER 23, 2023
In 43 states, the state departments of agriculture are co-regulators with EPA and are responsible for administering, implementing, and enforcing the production, labeling, distribution, sale, use, and disposal of pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
Civil Eats
AUGUST 22, 2023
Yet despite the Act’s historical ties to pesticides—the discovery of DDT’s impacts on bald eagles was one factor that propelled lawmakers to begin protecting threatened species—officials in the pesticide office at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are only now starting to figure out how to comply with the law.
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