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EPA Announces Plan to Protect Endangered Species and Support Sustainable Agriculture
EPA Announces Plan to Protect Endangered Species and Support Sustainable Agriculture
EPA Announces Plan to Protect Endangered Species and Support Sustainable Agriculture
The Environmental Protection Agency this week released its first-ever comprehensive workplan to address the challenge of protecting endangered species from pesticides. The plan establishes four overall strategies and dozens of actions to adopt protections while providing farmers, public health authorities, and others with access to pesticides ...
EPA Proposes Rule to Improve Pesticide Crop Groupings
EPA Proposes Rule to Improve Pesticide Crop Groupings
EPA Proposes Rule to Improve Pesticide Crop Groupings
On Tuesday, the EPA opened a 60-day comment period requesting public comments on the sixth proposed rule in a series of revisions to the pesticide crop grouping regulations. Crop groups are established when residue data for certain representative crops are used to establish pesticide tolerances for a group of crops that are botanically or taxonomically related ...
New EPA Pesticide Policy May Limit New Chemistries
New EPA Pesticide Policy May Limit New Chemistries
New EPA Pesticide Policy May Limit New Chemistries
The EPA is reversing decades of practice in an attempt to further the Agency’s compliance with the Endangered Species Act when evaluating new pesticides and ingredients. In the new policy, EPA will evaluate the potential effects of each new active ingredient on federally threatened or endangered species and their designated critical habitats before the agency will register a new AI. E ... Read Mo
Crowder Highlights How DAS Can Trim Production Costs
Crowder Highlights How DAS Can Trim Production Costs
Crowder Highlights How DAS Can Trim Production Costs
In an effort to help tree fruit growers save on their operating costs, 15 years ago Washington state University rolled out the Decision Aid System. And in that time, the digital Ag tool has become a platform for tree fruit growers, and now potato growers, to stay up to date on real-time weather, disease pressures and help make effective operational decisions ...
Simplot Agrees To Pay Pesticide Penalty
Simplot Agrees To Pay Pesticide Penalty
Simplot Agrees To Pay Pesticide Penalty
On Wednesday the EPA announced that Simplot has agreed to pay a $65,248 penalty for federal pesticide handling and storage requirement violations. The violations occurred at their company’s Umatilla, OR and Moreland, ID retail facilities. I ...

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