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Safety Resources Available During National Pesticide Safety Education Month
Safety Resources Available During National Pesticide Safety Education Month

The National Pesticide Safety Education Month webpage contains tips and resources specifically for ag retailers who sell pesticides.

Helpful Tips For Using Adjuvants In Spray Drones
Helpful Tips For Using Adjuvants In Spray Drones

Johnnie Roberts, CPDA director of application – adjuvant chemistry, shares a solution to many of the common issues spray drone applicators face.

How Ag Retail Is Expanding Options For Farmers Through Technology
How Ag Retail Is Expanding Options For Farmers Through Technology

As farmers have grown more aware of expanded options for buying inputs, retailers have invested in how they are part of the party.

Rise of the Spray Drone
Rise of the Spray Drone

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.

Congress Returns: Ag Appropriations Bill Takes Priority
Congress Returns: Ag Appropriations Bill Takes Priority

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.

Applicators to Reap Benefits from $15 Million Investment by EPA
Applicators to Reap Benefits from $15 Million Investment by EPA

EPA is looking to evolve the existing chemical licensing program to offer more education and training in restricted use pesticides.

Why You Need to Pay Attention Now to EPA’s Proposed Rodenticide Mitigation Measures
Why You Need to Pay Attention Now to EPA’s Proposed Rodenticide Mitigation Measures

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.

Producers Eliminate Fungicide and Insecticide Use, Cut Fertilizer 50%
Producers Eliminate Fungicide and Insecticide Use, Cut Fertilizer 50%

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.

House Reps Push for Seed Tech and Autonomy in 2024 Budget
House Reps Push for Seed Tech and Autonomy in 2024 Budget

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.

Unspoken Truths About Pests: Stinkbugs
Unspoken Truths About Pests: Stinkbugs

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.

Pesticide Approval System to be Revamped, According to EPA
Pesticide Approval System to be Revamped, According to EPA

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.

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EPA Grants Corteva 7-Year Registration for Enlist, Adds Endangered Species Considerations

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.”

Bioinsecticide Company Eyes 1 Million Acres in 2021
Bioinsecticide Company Eyes 1 Million Acres in 2021

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.

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How to Achieve Record Corn Yields: Start the Crop Right

As you make 2020 planting decisions, plan for disease, insect and weed pests that could be lurking in your fields, looking to steal precious grain.

Certis USA Announces CEO Succession Plan

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.

Augmented Reality Gives New View of Seed Treatments
Augmented Reality Gives New View of Seed Treatments

To give seed dealers and farmers a new way to look at and talk about seed treatments, the Acceleron brand has released the Virtual Root Dig app.

More Farmers Go Online For Crop Inputs
More Farmers Go Online For Crop Inputs

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?

Mike Henderson says retailers should know three things about Atticus
Atticus Plans For Growth In Midwest Markets

Mike Henderson says retailers should know three things about Atticus

General Mills Shares 4 Ways It Will Reduce Pesticide Use
General Mills Shares 4 Ways It Will Reduce Pesticide Use

In 2019, the company announced a goal to advance regenerative agriculture practices on more than 20% of General Mills’ sourcing footprint in North America.

Certis USA Now Distributes Two Biopesticides From Bayer
Certis USA Now Distributes Two Biopesticides From Bayer

Requiem biopesticide products, developed in the mid-2000s, have been distributed by Bayer, control sucking pests across several crops.

EPA Pulls 12 Neonicotinoid-Containing Pesticides
EPA Pulls 12 Neonicotinoid-Containing Pesticides

In response to legal action, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is cancelling registrations for 12 pesticides containing neonicotinoid.

Reuters: U.S. Appeals Court To Reconsider Chlorpyrifos Ban
Reuters: U.S. Appeals Court To Reconsider Chlorpyrifos Ban

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.

WinField United Donates Wind Tunnel To Further Drift Research
WinField United Donates Wind Tunnel To Further Drift Research

With new drift research, "“We are reshaping the hammer that we swing to build the house for the grower."

Amazon, Walmart? Farming’s Wild Scramble For Online Ag Retail

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.

Amazon, Walmart? Farming’s Wild Scramble For Online Ag Retail
Amazon, Walmart? Farming’s Wild Scramble For Online Ag Retail

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.

Sonny Perdue Disagrees With Chlorpyrifos Ban
Sonny Perdue Disagrees With Chlorpyrifos Ban

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.

This latest decision pivoted on the difference between “significant uncertainty” and “reasonable certainty.”
Court Orders EPA To Cancel All Registrations For Chlorpyrifos

This latest decision pivoted on the difference between “significant uncertainty” and “reasonable certainty.”

This is a trend as states have increasingly used their agencies and review processes to evaluate pesticide regulations.
Will A Second State Move To Ban Chlorpyrifos?

This is a trend as states have increasingly used their agencies and review processes to evaluate pesticide regulations.

With resistance on the rise, farmers need to employ new control methods
SCN Robs Yield from Every Field

After stealing $1.6 billion each year from farmers, soybean cyst nematode’s (SCN) reign is coming to an end.

<p>Jason Little, director of sales for Agrible, with screens showing the data available to clients on January 19. Agrible is one of nine agribusiness companies to get the "Ag Data Transparent" seal of approval.</p>
Ag Companies Slow to Get Data Transparency ‘Seal of Approval’

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.

Organizations plan to provide further education and training to encourage safe use of pesticides.
February Marks The Inaugural Pesticide Safety Education Month

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.