"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -- Charles Darwin. Two key factors are reshaping grain flows and logistics in corn: dramatic growth of the ethanol sector and the high cost...
Farmers are facing record crop losses to deer whose populations have been on the rise while new hope may come from a small Reno, Nevada-based enviro-ag company which announced last week that it filed with the EPA for a new plant systemic that promises to offer farmers and homeowners some...
Bt corn is genetically engineered to produce a protein found in the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis Bt. The protein is toxic to lepidopterous insects such as the European corn borer ECB, Ostrinia nubilalis Hubner, which is estimated to cost U.S. farmers over $1 billion annually (Mason et al.). Most varieties...
OPINION by Nick Moretti The question is, can there be such a thing as a price tag on health and safety? The answer is, in a capitalistic society, "yes." I also ascribe to the philosophy of returning something in better shape than it was...
Thanks to the federal government, Canadian homeowners are soon going to have a more difficult time keeping their yards bug-free. That is because the pesticides diazinon and chlorpyrifos, among the first to be reviewed by Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency PMRA, will not be available...
Canada's new licensing review exterminates its first victims, and more will come Thanks to the federal government, Canadian homeowners are soon going to have a more difficult time keeping their yards bug-free. That is because the pesticides diazinon and chlorpyrifos, among the first to...
By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 13--Scientists, environmentalists, oil company officials and state leaders predicted Tuesday that the Bush administration's decision to force ethanol into California's vast gasoline supply will not only raise prices at the...
New provisions make sense only if EPA uses real data and reliable information for its assessments. My farm is in northeastern Pennsylvania. I grow tomatoes, pumpkins, wheat, field corn and sweet corn. Without safe crop protection products, I would not be able to produce these crops. As an individual...
ABSTRACT Since the early 1970s, pollution abatement efforts have recognized nonpoint sources and, particularly, agriculture, as major causes of pollution in the Lake Erie region. The first objective of this research is to summarize federal and state agricultural pollution abatement programs that encouraged farmers to adopt...
Mar. 21--In a major policy reversal, the Clinton administration on Monday announced steps to "significantly reduce" and possibly outlaw nationwide the controversial gasoline additive MTBE, a chemical once backed as a way to reduce smog but now implicated for polluting wells and lakes from coast to...
Farmers are fertilizing crops with a "new" natural resource: a treated form of the stuff you flush. Time for lunch, at last. While flipping through the latest issue of Science World, you snarf down a burger, a salad, and some juice. Soon enough, nature calls. You make a...
INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING established rules and procedures, Environmental Protection Agency is basing important decisions about food safety and crop-protection chemicals on assumptions and incomplete science, the pesticide industry and farm groups charg INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING established rules and procedures, Environmental Protection Agency is...
As a result of a concerted grass-roots lobbying effort by farmers, crop protection chemical makers and other agribusiness interests, half of the members of the House of Representatives have agreed to support a bill that would force the EPA to chang As a result...
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION approves of spending billions of dollars to combat this country's financial crisis and billions more to hold down the fort in Iraq and Afghanistan, but when it came time to pony up a paltry $8 million a year to safeguard our food supply our government passed. ...
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION approves of spending billions of dollars to combat this country's financial crisis and billions more to hold down the fort in Iraq and Afghanistan, but when it came time to pony up a paltry $8 million a year to safeguard our food supply our government passed. ...
The Capital-Journal State agencies have embargoed wheat at three elevators and in 20 fields covering 1,545 acres in south-central Kansas until tests confirm that pesticide residues meet safety levels set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "This...
Farmers Market seeks summer-fall vendors The Green Brighton Task Force is coordinating a farmers market to be held on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Brighton High School parking lot. The market will run from June 1 through Oct. 26,...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: John Starkey of the Joint Environmental Committee, +1-770-493-9401, for the National Chicken Council WASHINGTON,Dec. 21/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --This is a jointstatement by the National Chicken Council, National TurkeyFederation, and U.S. Poultry & Egg Association on todaysannouncement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Environmental Protection Agency has...
The Environmental Protection Agency EPA establishes the first-ever Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee. The committee will meet approximately twice yearly and is intended to consist of approximately 25 members representing: (1) large and small farmers, ranchers and rural communities; (2) rural suppliers, marketers and processors;...
Quizalofop-p-ethyl {R-2-[4-(6-chloro-quinoxalin-2-yloxy)phenoxy] propionic acid; QpE} is a selective, postemergence phenoxy herbicide that belongs to the chemical group of aryloxyphenoxypropionic acids. The aryloxyphenoxypropionic acids, together with the cyclohexanediones class, account for approximately 10% of the global herbicide market (Harwood 1999). QpE is a slightly toxic compound [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA...
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