WASHINGTON— Pesticide-maker Bayer has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to re-approve the dangerous pesticide dicamba for use on genetically engineered cotton and soybeans. The request comes ...
Harry Barclay says the peppercorn tree on his property loses its leaves when nearby cotton farms spray their plants with ...
Though introduced in the 1960s, dicamba had been little-used due to its propensity to volatilize and drift, damaging neighbors' crops. In approving the new uses, the EPA defied numerous warnings that ...
The corn and soybean post-emergence crop protection application season is here. Corn and soybean growers will target post-emergence herbicide applications by the V4 growth stage in soybeans and ...
A study finds that exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides puts a threatened beetle species at higher risk of mortality.
The organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos has been in the ... The EPA will decide this year whether a new product containing the drift-prone herbicide dicamba can be used on genetically ...