Jun. 25—A plane will not spray billowing streams of insecticides this year onto a 35-square-mile area near the Rio Chama because grasshopper populations are too small to warrant such treatment. Federal pest-control managers, who’d considered the aerial spraying, called it off when grasshopper counts remained consistently below eight per square acre — the threshold deemed […]
The Georgia Department of Agriculture is warning farmers not to buy, sell or use a certain pesticide due to a contamination issue they say may damage crops. According to GDA, the Agricultural Inputs Division has issued a “stop sale” order on Midash Forte Insecticide after lab tests showed Batch TX433 was contaminated with herbicides. Midash […]
Jun. 1—Federal officials again are considering aerial pesticide spraying in a scenic area of the Rio Chama, despite the backlash a similar plan drew last year from conservationists, tribal advocates and political leaders. Federal and private landowners have requested 22,500 acres — roughly 35 square miles — be treated to thwart the insects that consume […]
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a California beekeeper was indicted for conspiracy to receive and sell smuggled pesticides from Mexico through the United States. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement that Paulo Perez-Mendoza, 44 of Stockton, Cali., was given a two-indictment by a federal grand jury. Court documents showed between Jan. 1, […]
The European Union’s executive arm has shelved an anti-pesticides proposal in yet another concession to farmers after weeks of protests blocked major capitals and economic lifelines across the 27-nation bloc. Although the proposal had languished in EU institutions for the past two years, the move by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was the […]
The latest eight-14 day weather outlook from the National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Prediction Center (CPC), issued Jan. 8 and for Jan. 16-22 is now likely below normal temperatures and a near normal outlook for precipitation. Eric Snodgrass, meteorologist for Nutrien Ag Solutions, says El Niño has reached its peak and now it is just […]