WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A popular herbicide is showing up in drinking water supplies, threatening its future use by Indiana farmers. Producers who use weed control products with the active ingredient ...
Atrazine, propazine and simazine are safe to use according to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. The agency announced its interim decision regarding these herbicides Friday, answering questions for ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has a lot of feedback to sift through — most of it critical — following the end of its comment period Friday on proposed measures designed to reduce the chances of ...
A wide variety of agricultural pesticides is used on farms, including herbicides, crop and livestock insecticides, fungicides, and fumigants (Curwin et al., 2005a). Farmers may be exposed to these ...
On Aug. 17, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, R-MO, and Rep. Tracey Mann, R-KS, led 92 of their House colleagues, most from farm states, in pushing back on the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent ...
ST. PAUL - Minnesota legislators are reviewing restrictions or an outright ban on atrazine herbicide, which has been used for nearly half a century to control weeds and grass in cornfields. Atrazine ...
An important new report on atrazine was published yesterday and it’s about time. Pesticide Action Network and Land Stewardship Project have brought together the science and farming communities to make ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The National Corn Growers Association claims to represent 35,000 dues-paying corn ...
Although growers have already planted grain sorghum in parts of Texas, growers in much of the Plains and other regions of the country will be planting sorghum over the next few weeks. To successfully ...
Answer: The herbicide you used was probably atrazine, which is a good choice for killing dollarweed. Unfortunately, the form you applied — granular — was not the best choice for the time of year.
In the spring and summer of 2001, as part of a larger study investigating farm family pesticide exposure and home contamination in Iowa, urine and hand wipe samples were collected from 24 male farmers ...
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