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Natural predators like birds, beetles and bugs might be an effective alternative to pesticides, keeping crop-devouring pests populations down while boosting crop yields, researchers...
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The EPA and Federal Government are beginning to structure new guidelines that are going to result in the ban of several popular products.
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EPA delivered the final death blow to agricultural uses of the insecticide chlorpyrifos on Aug. 18, in a long-awaited victory for public health.
Tech & Science
Farmers in western France are doubling down on an unusual crop: breeding millions of tiny predatory bugs and wasps to protect tomato plants.
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Anatoly Rubtsov looked despondently at the beehives lining his property. “The farm used to be loud, it sang,” he said. Today just a faint...
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The 50 agricultural workers exposed to the pesticide were harvesting cabbage at a local farm in Kern County, reports the television news station Kern...
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The three reports about pesticide use are: Arable Crops and Potato Stores 2014, Soft Fruit Crops 2014 and Rodenticides on Arable Farms 2014, all...
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The permit for the use of the pesticide was given in April to the Willapa Grays Harbor Shellfish Growers Association, a group of two...
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Steve Edmond, his wife and two sons had rented a vacation villa at Sirenuse Resort on St. John, in the Virgin Islands in March....
Life
Washington – The Environmental Protection Agency has banned Dursban and Lorsban, commonly used pesticides used to control bugs. The agency also is reducing the...