Western FarmPress

MAY 17, 2024

My Generation: Illinois lawmakers have little appetite for good agricultural science around pesticides. Meanwhile, the wind’s blowing harder, herbicides are on the move, and farmers have some decisions to make.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 17, 2024

Hoosier News and Notes: Clean Sweep Pesticide Disposal offers several dates and locations; invasive species workshop to provide control advice; weed science field day almost here; and Twilight Tour headed for Feldun Purdue Ag Center.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

People can also be exposed to EDCs from pesticides, air pollutants, industrial waste, and other pathways. The report reviews the research on pesticides (e.g., This report explains what everyone needs to know : the science, exposures, health effects, (especially in children), and regulatory needs.

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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.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 30, 2025

PFAS Central, a project of Green Science Policy, tracks this news. Consumer Reports detects PFAS in some milk The politics: from Civil Eats: Why Are Pesticide Companies Fighting State Laws to AddressPFAS? RISE also deploys a grassroots network of individuals who work in and with pesticide companiese.g.,

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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.

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Agwired

MARCH 11, 2025

Over 300 agricultural and food organizations have signed on to a letter calling for sound science and data to be used by the Make America Healthy Again Commission in upcoming evaluations for products essential to food and agriculture. Pesticides are called out by the signatories as being essential to protect crops and ensure U.S.

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NASDA

JUNE 20, 2024

We support the efforts being undertaken by both career staff and the IWG to make progress on improving the process for Endangered Species Act (ESA) review for pesticide registration decisions. The IWG has made progress since the enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill and its work should continue.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 8, 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).

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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.

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NASDA

AUGUST 7, 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).

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2024

When it comes to protecting the environment, agricultural producers and communities of every size rely on decisions from the EPA that are based on sound science, collaboration and transparency throughout each step of the process,” Chinn said. “It Regulations must be based on validated science and science-based risk assessments,” Chinn said.

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The Equation

JUNE 20, 2023

These hazards include climate change , pesticide exposure , and food insecurity , and the risks are at their greatest during the summer months UCS calls Danger Season because of the overlapping impacts of extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and floods. What does that do?

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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).

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Research published in the journal Science and reported in The New York Times showed that when bat populations declined from disease, farmers increased their pesticide use to address increased insect pressure on crops. Specifically, pesticide use in U.S. In turn, this led to higher infant mortality, scientists found.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 11, 2024

Will feature turfgrass best management practices, pesticide and fertilizer application calculation workshop The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will offer a turfgrass management program for local landscape professionals on March 22 in New Braunfels.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

1) Agrochemical production consumes fossil fuels to generate pesticides, fertilizers, and other inputs. ” In addition, pesticides and fertilizers are derived from fossil fuels. American agriculture is awash in a mix of both, as farms use about a billion pounds of pesticides and 21 million tons of synthetic fertilizer every year.

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ATTRA

MARCH 23, 2024

A study published in Science and conducted by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of British Columbia, and University of Colorado Boulder explored the complicated relationship between organic farming and pesticide use on neighboring fields.

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator by Ben Brisbois The city of Machala, Ecuador describes itself as the banana capital of the world. Ben Brisbois reveals the less-palatable side of the banana industry, from devastating health impacts of pesticides to imperialism and ecological destruction.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This new law prohibits the use of certain neonicotinoid pesticide (neonics) treated corn, soybean, or wheat seeds and neonicotinoid pesticides for outdoor ornamental plants and turfs, in the interest of protecting pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.

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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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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The court's ruling was unequivocal in asserting that the EPA had disregarded legal mandates when it revoked tolerances for chlorpyrifos, effectively prohibiting the use of this pesticide. The court's decision today sends a resounding message to the EPA: it, too, must prioritize sound scientific principles when formulating regulations.

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ATTRA

MARCH 27, 2024

Research published by the Tokyo University of Science shows that rose essential oil activates tomato defense genes and attracts herbivore predators that protect the plants. Scientists assessed the efficacy of 11 essential oils in activating tomato defense responses, as an alternative to chemical pesticides for organic production.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Recently, regulations in Europe have removed a huge number of pesticides. million from the National Science Foundation SBIR Phase II grant and supplements. Pesticide resistance was a big problem, and organic farmers had very few tools to control pests. What is your value proposition? Be specific.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. This was because traditional farming systems allowed the field to be a habitat for the vast range of species which used to coexist in the understory of crops or grasslands, without unduly compromising productivity.

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Food Tank

JULY 26, 2024

Unlike vast swaths of Pacific and Indian Ocean where global treaties are lacking, enforcement is sparse, science is always playing catch-up and ‘dark fleets’ perpetrate illegal fishing and human rights abuses, the Bering Sea is a global model for how fish, fishermen and communities can all thrive. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Exploring Uncharted Knowledge Gaps Working with limited funding, OREI and ORG have enabled tremendous strides in advancing the science and practice of organic farming and ranching over the past two decades.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. Imperial County residents were exposed to over 1,200 pounds of pesticides—via the air, water, and on the plants themselves—per square mile from 2017-2019. In 2002, U.S.

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The Equation

MAY 13, 2024

Especially when it means I can breathe outside because there is no pesticide drift, wildfire smoke, vehicle exhaust, or pungent odors. In addition, Merced County applies more than 10 million pounds of pesticides per year that contribute to the area’s poor air quality. I am into air quality. These particles are categorized by size.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

EPA’s newly published regulation creating “PIPs created through genetic engineering from a sexually compatible plant” and “loss-of-function PIPs” is not risk-based, science-based and focuses on process of development rather than product. We ask that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that U.S.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. While the realm of pesticides and fertilizers has been dominated by chemistry for the past eight decades, it seems like biology may soon have its day.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A review study by researchers at the Tokyo University of Science, published in Trends in Plant Science , explored potential for adapting plant communication via Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) to help protect plants from pests. Related ATTRA publication: Companion Planting & Botanical Pesticides: Concepts & Resources

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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. LPS can also elicit an immune response in humans.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that good nutrition enhances honey bee resilience against viral threats and exposure to pesticides. Bees that had a natural pollen diet still experienced losses from an introduced virus, but suffered fewer additional losses from pesticide exposure.

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Food Tank

JULY 24, 2024

Recently, New York State passed the Birds and Bees Protection Act which prohibits the use of certain toxic neonicotinoid pesticides that harm bees and water sources. “We Rules must be based on sound legal interpretation and strong science.” We need more states to follow suit,” she tells Food Tank.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Our main study, “ Water, environment, and socioeconomic justice in California: A multi-benefit cropland repurposing framework ,” was recently published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. But I’ll tell you the truth: this work has been hard for me.

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