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Tips on reading pesticide labels and correctly interpreting label information will be offered at the annual Twilight Meeting of the Dodge and Fond du Lac County Forage Councils. It will [...]

Byline: David Jones The flow of new pesticides on to the market has dried to a trickle due to a tougher new approval process introduced recently by the European Union. [...]

Byline: DuPont Land Management Everyone who handles pesticides must understand and abide by federal, state and local regulations to ensure the safety of themselves and those around application sites. To [...]

Byline: Philip Case The NFU is to intervene in support of Syngenta's legal bid to reverse a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides linked to a decline in bee health. NFU president [...]

Byline: Richard Allison The EU's onerous pesticide regulations are being blamed for a sharp fall in research and development spend on new products aimed at the European farmers. This is [...]

The greater threat to human health and environment is hazardous pesticides and organic farming/food is the answer. But that answer cannot be materialised until there is policy for organic food [...]

The EU has widened a ban on the use of three insecticides over honeybee concerns to include the seed treatment fipronil, produced by the German company BASF, after a qualified [...]

Byline: Philip Case Pesticide users born before 1965 will soon be required by law to hold a certificate of competence to spray agrichemicals. The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) [...]

EU moves to impose a partial ban on three common insecticides from 1 December over concerns for bees have provoked a bitter dispute between environmental groups, industry and farming representatives [...]

Byline: Philip Case Scotland's rural affairs secretary has called on the EU to delay plans for a ban on pesticides considered harmful to bees. Crucial proposals to suspend the use [...]

Byline: Syngenta Syngenta acknowledged that European Union (EU) Member States for the second time failed to agree on the European Commission's proposal for a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides. The latest [...]

Byline: National Cotton Council As environmental activists coalesce around a ban on the neonicotinoid insecticides as the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a timely article recently published in Forbes [...]

Byline: Luke Casswell Greenpeace has called on European countries to take urgent action and ban pesticides that cause harm to bees. The study Bees in Decline highlights the ecological and [...]

Byline: David Jones The threat hanging over the most popular group of cereal fungicides is intensifying as the European Commission pushes ahead with new pesticide rules by the end of [...]

Byline: Syngenta Syngenta responded to the failure of the European Commission to win support for an EU-wide ban on neonicotinoid pesticides. A majority of Member States refused to support the [...]

Byline: Mark Moore In the first key ruling on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in Europe, a majority of Member States refused to support a proposed restriction on the chemical's [...]

Byline: Source: Syngenta Ãá Syngenta has responded to the failure of the European Commission to win support for an EU-wide ban on neonicotinoid pesticides. A majority of Member States refused [...]

Byline: California Specialty Crops Council International standards for pesticide residues in agricultural products, global harmonization efforts and new product registration strategies are the primary focus of the eighth annual workshop. [...]

Byline: USA Rice Federation Reps. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio), Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.), Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) and Austin Scott (R-Ga.) last week introduced H.R. 935, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2013. [...]

Byline: House Agriculture Committee A group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced H.R. 935, The Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2013. This bill would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) [...]

Byline: Paul Spackman nap changes * All professional users to hold an agreed certificate by 26 November 2015 - applies to 'grandfather rights holders' * All distributors to have sufficient [...]

EPA proposes to clarify the substances on the minimum risk pesticide ingredient list and the way ingredients are identified on product labels. Minimum risk pesticides are a special class of [...]

Byline: Source: American Soybean Association A The American Soybean Association (ASA) welcomes legislation introduced yesterday from Senate Agriculture Committee members Pat Roberts (R-KS), and Mike Johanns (R-NE) that amends the [...]

'Pesticide ban would cost millions' Q Neonicotinoid pesticides pose 'a number of risks' to bees, the European Food Safety Authority concluded in a risk assessment, prompting calls for a ban [...]

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Byline: DPR The majority of fresh produce samples collected by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) in 2011 had no detectable pesticide residues, and residues that were detected generally [...]

The Rs24,000-crore rice exports industry is facing threats of increasing rejection and holding up of consignments in US owing to pesticide residues exceeding the permissible limits. The exporters have decided [...]

Aimco Pesticides Limited (APL) has announced sales of Rs170.41 crore for the year ended Jun 2012. The company recorded 35 percent rise in net profit at Rs4.96 crore and an [...]

Byline: NCC Within the House Agriculture Committee's 550-page 2012 farm bill discussion draft is a Horticulture Title that includes provisions addressing several regulatory issues important to production agriculture. The bill's [...]

The French government has banned a pesticide linked to the decline of bees that is widely used to treat oilseed rape. Cruiser OSR, which contains the neonicotinoid insecticide thiamethoxam, was [...]

Byline: National Cotton Council The Pesticide Policy Dialogue Committee (PPDC), an advisory panel to EPA comprised of registrants, commodity groups, NGOs, academics, and others, met to discuss a variety of [...]

New Pesticide Registration Notice 2012-1 is available EPA announced the availability of a Pesticide Registration Notice (PR Notice) in the April 20 Federal Register entitled 'Pesticide Registration Notice 2012-1: Material [...]

Guidance helps pesticide registrants reconcile different agency labeling requirements EPA announced the availability of a Pesticide Registration Notice (PR Notice) in the April 20 Federal Register entitled 'Pesticide Registration Notice [...]

Byline: Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Despite a growing worldwide clamor to ban pesticides linked to honey bee deaths, multiple factors contribute to the declining honey bee population, not just [...]

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has developed an easy-to-use, Web-based database to provide information on pesticides allowed for use on a limited basis under emergency conditions, DPR Director [...]

Byline: Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Despite a growing worldwide clamor to ban pesticides linked to honey bee deaths, multiple factors contribute to the declining honey bee population, not just [...]

Byline: University of Illinois On Oct. 31, 2011, a new federal regulation requiring a permit for certain pesticide applications went into effect. Why should you care? Because it applies to [...]

Byline: University of Illinois On Oct. 31, 2011, a new federal regulation requiring a permit for certain pesticide applications went into effect. Why should you care? Because it applies to [...]

Byline: Source: University of Illinois *a On Oct. 31, 2011, a new federal regulation requiring a permit for certain pesticide applications went into effect. Why should you care? Because it [...]

Byline: NCC USDA Secretary Vilsack and EPA Administrator Jackson met with representatives of farm and commodity organizations to discuss current issues and concerns. This meeting was the third of its [...]

Byline: From the National Association of Wheat Growers NAWG and other agricultural groups have been hitting Capitol Hill this week urging Senators to offer their formal support for that chamberas [...]

THE introduction of new UK pesticide legislation is being delayed while Ministers consider a request by the industry to continue effectively `gold-plating' EU rules. Rules change The Government was due [...]