Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This would further enable farmers to drastically cut pesticide use and increase habitat availability for a wide range of species. In contrast, today’s dominant players genetically engineer and mass produce seed alongside complementary inputs including fertilizers and pesticides.

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

EPA is warning people of the significant health risks to pregnant individuals and their developing babies exposed to DCPA and will be pursuing action to address the serious, permanent, and irreversible health risks associated with the pesticide as quickly as possible. Now in its 11th year, this national business competition showcases U.S.

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

States are hearing the needs of rural communities, too. In Colorado, the Consumer Right to Repair Agriculture Equipment Act, which went into effect in January , means that owners of agricultural equipment can repair their machinery independently, rather than being required to go through the manufacturer.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. In fact, farm chemicals have created a multi-generational and slow-motion health epidemic across rural America and its diaspora. Even Perrizo in Faribault County used herbicides to terminate his.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

consumers are paying more for chocolate products as confection manufacturers raise prices in response to the soaring cost of cocoa. Agri-Pulse welcomed CHS as the platinum sponsor for the 2024 Ag & Food Policy Summit focused on “Revitalizing Rural Revenues.” The release event that will start at 12:30 p.m.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” During the three intervening years, Strey and her team had reshaped Plantix from a tool they hoped would help reduce global pesticide use into an app that would make it easier for farmers to buy pesticides.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Agwired

MAY 31, 2024

It will create jobs and spur economic growth in rural communities by increasing competition in agricultural markets. AmegA Sciences and React Industries are private label manufacturers which serve the agricultural, horticultural, turf and ornamental industries as well as the wider plant health sectors, both domestically and internationally.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

and China, where it is manufactured. Epidemiological studies linking it to paraquat are at the root of roughly 7,000 lawsuits filed in federal court against Syngenta, the company that manufactures paraquat. It is illegal in more than 70 countries , including the European Union, as well as the U.K. On January 17, EPA took two actions.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2025

The week prior, Georgias state lawmakers passed a bill that would protect pesticide manufacturers from the same kind of legal liability in the future. The fact these chemical companies want immunity from the harm that their pesticides may have on an individual or many individuals, its just not fair.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Bill Jordan, a consultant and volunteer with the Environmental Protection Network who worked at the EPA for 40 years and was the former deputy director of the agency’s pesticide office, said the human health risks any pesticide poses depend on both the toxicity of the ingredients and the amount of exposure a person experiences when they use it.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 24, 2025

While Kennedy has pledged to end the use of certain pesticides and promotes organic and regenerative agriculture, Rollins is seen as a supporter of the kind of conventional, chemical-based agriculture he wants to transform. Kennedy, Jr., nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The Hearing.

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Civil Eats

JULY 22, 2024

And at a panel on the National Mall hosted by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers in May, House Ag Committee members Dusty Johnson (R-South Dakota) and David Rouzer (R-North Carolina) both seemed to be reading from that policy book, despite the fact that both are members of the RSC. Today, it’s nearly all Republicans.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion in 7,200 on-farm renewable energy projects, including installing manure digesters and solar panels and $6 billion in rural electric coops. Regulating Pesticides and Other Chemicals Ongoing pesticide approvals and regulations generally chug along without much disruptioneven as administrations change.

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