While farmers find the technology useful, especially for spot spraying and targeting fields in less-than-ideal conditions, weed scientists are buzzing with more caution.
Legislators have until Wednesday to propose amendments to the fiscal 2024 Ag appropriations bill, which could lead to test votes on farm bill matters. The measure could begin debate next week.
EPA is proposing changes to rodenticides that would result in canceling products and uses, adding more requirements to labels, and reclassifying some products to restricted use pesticides. Here's what you need to know.
To combat volatile weather, mitigate rising input costs and meet agronomic goals, producers are making choices geared toward soil health. Here are insights and tips from three of those producers.
In hopes of solidifying American ag’s competitive role in global markets, 27 House members signed a letter to the White House, stressing the importance of ag research investments in the 2024 budget.
Stink bugs are best known for their stench when squashed. However, the insect is gaining more notoriety in the Midwest for another reason — their love of soybeans.
EPA believes the current pesticide approval system has major “unsustainable and legally tenuous” setbacks. Courts currently dictate ESA cases for the EPA, but this new workplan will allow the Agency to work alone.
The EPA says prior to Jan. 11, 2022, the agency “did not consistently assess the potential effects of conventional pesticides on listed species when registering new active ingredients.”
With increasing resistance to pyrethroids, this bioinsecticide provides a new mode of action (Group 31) to control earworms. Its application timing is to target corn earworms at first appearance.
Amy O’Shea, a veteran of the agriculture, food and pharmaceutical industries joins Certis USA as President effective immediately and will assume the CEO role on July 1.
If e-commerce adoption continues to increase, and if it matches the intentions of this survey’s respondents,
1 in 7 farmers will buy some of their crop inputs online. Are you ready?
In 2019, the company announced a goal to advance regenerative agriculture practices on more than 20% of General Mills’ sourcing footprint in North America.
This week the Trump administration has persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reconsider a decision to ban chlorpyrifos. The court will review former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s March 2017 refusal to ban the pesticide.
The Wild West has come to ag retail. The scramble for ag retail dollars has kicked up a dusty haze as traditional chemical players scrap gravel with an expanding list of online start-up companies.
The Wild West has come to ag retail. The scramble for ag retail dollars has kicked up a dusty haze as traditional chemical players scrap gravel with an expanding list of online start-up companies.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will rehear a pesticide case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case in question is when the court directed EPA to ban chlorpyrifos within 60 days of the hearing.
Just nine of 30 agribusiness companies have followed through on a pledge to implement the Farm Bureau's 2014 "Core Principles" for transparency in the collection of farmers’ data.
The Weed Science Society of America, American Phytopathological Society and the Entomological Society of America join together for the first-ever Pesticide Safety Education month.