glyphosate

Groups representing farmers, Ag retailers, landscaping, and golf course professionals showed strong support for continued access to glyphosate. Their response came after oral arguments in litigation regarding glyphosate registration. Ten groups, including the American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, are parties in the case supporting g

A coalition of consumer, health and environmental groups call on Lowe’s and Home Depot to remove Roundup from store shelves. The groups, including Friend of the Earth, claim consumers can’t wait, urging the stores to remove the products now. Last m ...

The Idaho Wheat Commission recently launched a monthly webinar focused on industry questions specific to the Pacific Northwest. Casey Chumrau, Executive Director of the Wheat Commission says growers can participate in these webinar live and have their questions addressed ...

Trade talks are underway between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, as part of a two-day summit focus on USMCA. The agreement is nearing its first anniversary, and there are a handful of issues of concern. Politico reports there are continuing labor concerns between the U ...

Earlier this week, a federal judge sided with an agriculture coalition issuing a permanent injunction against the California warning requirement of Proposition 65 for glyphosate. The ruling removes the cancer warning on glyphosate. The judge in the case says providing misleading or false labels to consumers “undermines California’s interest in accurately informing its citizens of health risks.”

A coalition of commodity groups seeks to block a challenge that would toss out the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to reregister glyphosate. The group filed a joint motion to intervene on April 20 in the case to support EPA's decision ...

The EPA announced Thursday it has wrapped up its regulatory review of glyphosate and found that the most widely use weed killed in the U.S. is not carcinogenic.  The announcement comes despite U.S. juries determining the weed killer is responsible for cancer in some trials.  ...

A routine draft assessment of glyphosate by the EPA says it’s a beneficial tool for farmers and promotes conservation-based practices.  The American Farmer Bureau Federation’s Allison Crittenden said the draft review by the EPA should keep glyphosate in the farmer’s toolbox.   “This is part...

A federal judge reduced a court-ordered penalty against Bayer to $25.2 million from $80.2 million. The award stems from a lawsuit against the company by a California man who claims glyphosate in Roundup caused his cancer. Edward Hardeman says he used Roundup for years, and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014, but is now in remission...

A Dow Jones report says Austrian lawmakers banned the key chemical in Roundup Herbicide, the first country to do so in Europe.  Lawmakers in the country were voting on a proposal by the opposition Social Democratic Party to ban the use of the chemical glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the world.  A ...