Reading Time: 5 minutes As the cost of spraying crops with pesticides becomes increasingly expensive, farmers in Greece's agricultural heartland have turned to a cheaper alternative: liquids in unlabeled plastic bottles smuggled over land and sea.
Europe’s illegal pesticide trade surges as farmers cut costs
At least 14 per cent of pesticides used on EU fields today are illegal
Cash-strapped US farmers switch to generic crop chemicals, in blow to big manufacturers
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. farmers struggling with slumping incomes and depressed grain prices have been switching to cheaper generic pesticides and fungicides as they plan for spring planting next year, which market analysts said could hit the bottom lines of agrichemical companies like Bayer.
Herbicide approved for industrial use by drone
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s Pest Management Review Agency approved Garlon XRT herbicide, the first industrial vegetation product with drone application on the label.
Bayer offers up new herbicide combo to dog resistant weeds early
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bayer launches Huskie, a new herbicide blend.
BASF to close two glufosinate production sites
Reading Time: < 1 minute BASF plans to shut down two sites in Germany that are part of its production network for the glufosinate-ammonium weed killer, the German chemicals group said on Wednesday.
Bayer looks to AI to combat herbicide resistance faster
Bayer's Icafolin will be its first new mode of action herbicide in some 30 years when it launches in 2028
Reading Time: < 1 minute Weeds are growing resistant to the herbicides already on the market, and agribusiness companies like Bayer are in a desperate search for new modes of action to help farmers kill them.
Pesticides under fire in U.S.
Recent court decisions have threatened farmers' abilities to use some herbicides
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pesticides are increasingly under attack in the United States and that is keeping farm leaders awake at night.
Bayer notches more wins in Roundup weedkiller cancer trials
Company has won 13 of last 20 cases; plaintiffs have won more than $4 billion
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bayer on Tuesday said it won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a retired postal service worker in Pennsylvania who alleged he developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma from using the company's Roundup weedkiller.
Commodity Classic day one: Farmers concerned about EPA’s herbicide strategy
Farm bill, USDA crop forecasts on American farmers' minds at the Houston farm show
Reading Time: 3 minutes Day one of the 2024 Commodity Classic is in the books and a few interesting themes emerged from the annual gathering of U.S. corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers.
US allows farmers to use existing supplies of dicamba weedkillers
An Arizona court decision vacated the EPA's registration of dicamba-based herbicides
Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that farmers can use some existing supplies of herbicides based on the chemical dicamba, despite a federal court ruling last week that halted sprayings.
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