Over the last forty years nitrogen fertilizer use has increased seven-fold and nearly every acre of intensively farmed, conventional cropland is treated with pesticides. Officials in Baltimore announced yesterday that the Allied Chemical Company deliberately withheld test results showing high arsenic levels in a city park three decades ago. According to officials, Allied Chemical let the city falsely believe that arsenic levels in Swann Park were vastly lower than reality and had come from...

Pesticide Exposure During Conception May Affect School Success Later (MS) Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine say that exposure to pesticides (which is more frequent for babies conceived in May and June) could impact their development, lead to premature birth and may affect school performance as the child ages. Pesticide Exposure During Conception May Affect School Success Later (MS) Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine say that exposure to...

Invasive weeds spread aggressively, infesting agricultural fields, clogging waterways, degrading salmon spawning habitat and displacing native plants reducing forage and shelter that wildlife depend on. An herbicide is just a pesticide for plants. In recognition of this opportunity, stakeholders from around Alaska are working to increase public awareness and promote invasive weed prevention and management. When you hear about the pesticide law, they pertain to herbicides, too, she said. In...

Scientists say the ants have been proven effective for fruit fly control and they can be used for controlling pests in most perennial crops except coffee. If the weaver is taken on in Uganda, it will increase the country's mango exports, reduce on the use of expensive and inaccessible pesticides, thus raising revenue. He said fruit flies and the fact that most small-scale farmers cannot afford pesticides led to the United States to ban mango exports from West Africa. A tropical weaver ant,...

Giving that thirsty lawn a mere sip of water, however, may not be the best way to take care of your lawn. We haven t had a good downpour in a while, and that has transformed what had been a pretty good rain season into a lousy one, and now instead of soft, lush grass, many lawns feel like straw and look worse. But if you ve driven around town at all this past week, you ve no doubt noticed the brown reminders of what s not going so well. A brown lawn, by the way, isn t necessarily anything...

He says the pilots need to know how to fix the planes, understand pesticides and the farming industry. David Eby, owner of Agriflite Services in Wakarusa, says the pilots undergo extensive training and have to log at least 500 hours in the crop duster before they begin actual work. It's specialized flying that you have to have common sense, you have to have a feeling of the airplane that you can handle it in what ever situation. When you see a crop duster in the air, you can guarantee the...

Because of the demand for the fungicide, a half dozen planes, some from out of state, will be applying it for the next month or so as the corn starts to tassel. They re just crop dusters applying a fungicide that will keep crops healthier and increase farmers yields. They re just crop dusters applying a fungicide that will keep crops healthier and increase farmers yields. Traylor said Tuesday that farmers couldn t justify the expense of the fungicide in the past, but higher crop values now...

Ask Gopalaiah, an astrologer by profession, what drove him for the experiment and he says, Scores of farmers who depend solely on coconut farming have seen the worst when coconut trees were infested with insects and worms. The tank with pesticides is also fitted with a powerful spraying machine and pipes that reaches the pesticide to all the plants in the farm. He then planted 3,000 pomegranate saplings in about 12 acres of land and got solar-energy enabled fencing done for the protection...

And in that, one of the significant factors that increase the risk of bladder cancer was the exposure to lawn herbicides and lawn pesticides," Knapp said. I-Team 8 has uncovered how herbicides and pesticides commonly found in lawn and garden products can be dangerous to your dog. But they are thinking about doing without chemical herbicides and pesticides in the future. And when you combine lawn herbicides and pesticides, then there's a seven-fold increased risk," she said. The study...