The Idaho State Department of Agriculture will hold several Pesticide Disposal events across the state. ISDA will accept herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides
In the effort to reduce input costs, it's important that growers get from their application what they expect. And As Austin Anderson with Helena Agri-Enterprises says, the most expensive application is the one that doesn’t work.
Groups representing U.S. farmers have filed a brief encouraging the Supreme Court to hear a case on labeling for glyphosate and other pesticides. The groups, which represent a broad swath of agriculture and cover over 300 million acres, argue that glyphosate is a “once-in-a-century” herbicide given its effectiveness at controlling an array of damaging weeds, affordability, and low toxicity.
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Bayer announced it is leaving the seed treatment equipment business in the U.S. to help bolster the company’s finances. Reuters says a spokesman confirmed in an email that Bayer was exiting the business, which makes equipment designed to help treat seeds with products like fungicides and insecticides before the seeds are planted to protect crop yields. An email...