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Glyphosate shortage looms large
2021-11-26
Karl Dirks, who farms 1,000 acres in Mount Joy, Pa., has been hearing about the sky-high prices of glyphosate and glufosinate, but he isn’t panicking about it yet.“I think it's going to fix itself,” he says. “High prices tend to fix high prices. I'm not too concerned yet. I'm sti...
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High prices of glyphosate and glufosinate boosting global demand for paraquat
2021-11-26
When ICI launched paraquat in 1962, it never expected to encounter ups and downs, such as the situation when the excellent non-selective broad-spectrum herbicide could fall from its stature as the world’s second-largest herbicide.?Today, with its affordable price, paraquat is aga...
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China’s crop germplasm resources census shows advantages, challenges for seed security
2021-11-26
China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MOA) on Tuesday announced the top seed resources detected in its largest-ever agricultural germplasm resources census, as the country strives to achieve self-sufficiency in seed breeding, which has been elevated to a crucial part...
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Sri Lanka - Gazette banning five pesticides including Glyphosate revoked
2021-11-26
An Extraordinary Gazette notification has been issued by the Registrar of Pesticides revoking the Gazette issued in 2014 prohibiting the use and sale of several pesticides including Glyphosate.Issued by the Registrar of Pesticides Dr. J. A. Sumith and dated November 01, it revoke...
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Quality control of pesticides via laser diffraction particle size analysis
2021-11-26
From the key active ingredients to the final pesticide product, particle size is known to play a critical role in the residual period, the biological activity, and the stability properties of pesticides.Measuring the particle size distribution is crucial when establishing the qua...
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Philippine agriculture experts: More fertilizer subsidies seen needed to shield farmers from high gl...
2021-11-26
Increased fertilizer subsidies are required if farmers are to deal with higher global prices for the farm input, agriculture experts said, after a key Senator called for immediate government intervention to prevent farmers from going further into debt for the next planting season...
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No evidence that Glyphosate alone, or in combination with a common parasite, has negative lethal or ...
2021-11-26
Glyphosate is the most commonly used pesticide in the world, and is widely used in agriculture. While glyphosate has been deemed ‘bee-safe’ by regulators, some emerging evidence studies suggest that it has negative effects on bees. For that reason, discovering whether glyphosate ...
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Neonicotinoids: European Food Safety Authority assesses emergency uses on sugar beet in 2020/21
2021-11-19
EFSA has completed its assessments of emergency authorisations granted by 11 EU Member States for the use of neonicotinoid-based insecticides on sugar beet in 2020 and 2021.The assessments cover 17 emergency authorisations for plant protection products containing clothianidin, im...
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Keeping carbon in check: Carbon farming to address a changing climate
2021-11-19
In the face of climate change, the agriculture industry is taking two complementary approaches toward decarbonization: reducing emissions and pulling carbon out of the atmosphere to store it in the soil, where it benefits crops and entire ecosystems.But carbon itself is often mis...
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Celebrating advent of plants varieties protection law in Nigeria
2021-11-19
In Nigeria, there is this popular story of how some Asian countries came to Nigeria and left with our palm seedlings and other plant resources. Today, Nigeria imports oil from those countries.Many of such stories abound, especially if you are close to technicians that work with m...