NASDA

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Representing State Lead Agencies in 43 states, NASDA members are tasked with numerous elements of pesticide regulation that are immediately impacted by this decision, including the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the production, labeling, distribution, sale, use, and disposal of pesticides under FIFRA.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 7, 2023

RNAi — ribonucleic acid interference — involves targeting specific RNA sequences in a disease or pest, rather than targeting entire proteins or enzymes, as is the case with current pesticides. It’s a. It’s a. Read More

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or the “Agency”) on EPA’s October 12, 2023 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) concerning the Agency’s approach to regulation of seeds treated with a pesticide registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”), 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq. 70,625 (Oct.

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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. The 2022 Student Organic Seed Symposium and the 2021 Northeast Organic Seed Conference built robust and lasting collaborations. Organic production of crop seeds and transplants.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

The goal is to provide high-quality Moringa leaves and seeds while preserving the environment. It eliminates synthetic chemicals, ensuring that Moringa products are free from harmful pesticides. Organic Moringa farming focuses on growing Moringa trees using natural and sustainable practices.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on. Arizona has been at the forefront of conservation efforts, protecting CWRs on public lands like the WCBA, at botanical gardens like at the Desert Museum, and at seed banks.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation. Traditionally, Hopi women are the seed keepers, and the art of dry farming starts with the right seeds.

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

million seed round in 2022. Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield. Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield.

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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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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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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

There is a strong market demand for local products from agroecological farms and producers, including green leafy vegetables, fruits, grains, small livestock, and native seeds. Local manufacturing of bio-inputs including fertilizers, bio- pesticides, and inoculants is booming. These markets are large and important to local producers.

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Cropaia

JANUARY 13, 2025

Resource optimization: Software that monitors input usage, such as water, fertilizers, and pesticides, to reduce waste and improve sustainability. Machinery Integration: Platforms that sync with GPS-enabled equipment can automate processes like seeding, fertilizing, and harvesting.

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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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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Minnesota farmers are part of a 15-state trial piloting an Australian method of weed-seed control, reports University of Minnesota Extension. The strategy utilizes a rotating mill that is attached to the combine during harvest to separate weed seeds and pulverize them.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Variable Rate Technology (VRT) in agriculture is an innovative approach that allows farmers to apply inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, water, and pesticides in

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity. For instance, mountain lions, deer, coyotes, foxes, and bobcats can die by ingesting bait meant for pests or by eating pesticide-contaminated prey.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are three major types of biopesticides, which can be used to derive the Arber Bio Insecticide, and these are: Biochemical pesticides: these substances occur naturally and they take control of pests in non-toxic ways. On the other hand, conventional pesticides directly kill and inactivate pests.

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Kavya Organic Farm

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There are three major types of biopesticides, which can be used to derive the Arber Bio Insecticide, and these are: Biochemical pesticides: these substances occur naturally and they take control of pests in non-toxic ways. On the other hand, conventional pesticides directly kill and inactivate pests.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

initiative developed in partnership with the world’s biggest chemical, seed, and meat companies—many of whom drive the food system’s biggest sources of greenhouse emissions. Agriculture, Goes on Trial When Seeds Become Toxic Waste The post Will a Food and Ag Focus at COP28 Distract From the Fossil Fuel Economy? working alongside U.S.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

Sincerely, Agricultural Retailers Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Seed Trade Association American Society of Plant Biologists American Soybean Association American Sugarbeet Growers Association Arkansas Rice Growers Association Biotechnology Innovation Organization California Avocado Commission California Citrus Mutual California (..)

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient.

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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. Take BASF’s 2.0

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Climate change, pollution, pesticides and habitat destruction are putting increasing pressure on pollinators, such as bees and butterflies. In 2023, the TDOT launched a program called Project Milkweed —free mail-order milkweed seeds for people to plant in their gardens to support monarchs. I think we were shocked,” says McClanahan. “It’s

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

million empty pesticide and fertilizer containers and nearly 300,000 empty seed and pesticide bags. Instead of seed trays, he uses soil blocks that compress soil into uniform bricks that hold their shape without the need for plastic cell moulds.

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NASDA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Or it could lead to less use of inputs and, without the use of pesticides, farmers can lose up to 80% of their crops annually due to pests and disease. Without the savings from the MTB, it could lead to increased prices of final agricultural commodities, raising the cost of food and jeopardizing global competitiveness.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

This sets up a situation where a pesticide treatment may be needed, which knocks out beneficial biology that could keep pathogens in check, which leads to a downward spiral of degradation. Improving nitrogen management would reduce our reliance on pesticides, and the entire system would function better. These are features, not bugs.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Unfortunately, prevention isn’t as easy as spraying the larvae with pesticides. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. Wells could try to seed his crops early , so they can be harvested before the nymphs mature into eating machines.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summit Agro announced that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation has approved the use of Regev hybrid fungicide in the state. It is applied as a seed treatment as well as in-furrow, drip or sub irrigation. Stine Seed Company is proud to announce the launch of its new lineup of soybean blends. Ceradis B.V. ,

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

. #3: Tailoring The Development Of Genetic Varieties Vindara argues that the difference is in the seeds. By designing seeds specifically for indoor vertical farms - “entirely through analytics, not gene-editing or GMOs” - this company claims to amplify crop yield, appearance, nutrition, and flavor. Register today!

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

We have covered the incorporation of hedgerows to sequester carbon in soil, an ultracross seed-breeding project to create climate-adapted plant varieties, and the adoption of care-centered politics , among many other efforts. Below are some of our most important climate solutions stories from 2023.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides. There are two major threats to criolla [native] seeds today,” said Fuentes.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pest Resistance: Polyculture can reduce the reliance on pesticides, as the diversity of plants can deter pests and encourage natural predators. Pesticide Selection: With just one crop, pesticide selection and management can be simpler. 2007): Perennial Polyculture Farming: Seeds of Another Agricultural Revolution?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Today, Walmart’s public relations efforts combine with the activities of Walton charities and investments in a sprawling buffet of corporate promising, donations, and seed capital directed at a range of social and environmental issues affected by the largest retailer in the world. In 2021, their collective spending on charity totaled $969.8

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 28, 2025

AgPlenus is a pesticide discovery company implementing cutting-edge AI and deep-learning to discover novel sustainable crop protection solutions. Agragene utilizes advanced gene-editing to sterilize male pests, providing an eco-friendly and precise alternative to chemical pesticides.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

Farm Crop Yield Process Error Tracking Table Labor Tools Materials Management Methodology Employee Count Inefficient Hand Tools Seeds/Transplants Planting Schedule Planting Technique Machinery Pesticides Harvesting Schedule Plant Health Monitoring Irrigation Plant Supplements Logistics Harvesting Technique (..)

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Agriculture for Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Pesticides applied to crops is one of these factors. Decisions made by the farmer make a difference in the exposure of bees and other beneficials to toxic levels of pesticides. While pesticides applied to crops are only one among many factors that threaten pollinators, this is one factor that growers can do something about.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Wade will be the staff lead for NASDA’s Plant Agriculture and Pesticide Regulations and Rural Development and Financial Security Committees. Beck’s , the largest family-owned retail seed company in the United States, is excited to announce the groundbreaking of its new soybean processing facility in New Madrid, Missouri.

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