Environment
Well-known Swedish environmentalist campaigner Greta Thunberg has criticised the UK government for allowing farmers to continue using a bee-killing pesticide that...
Arable
The European Commission has published updated EU Harmonised Risk Indicators for pesticides, covering the period 2011 to 2018. The figures...
Agri-Business
Two scientists who developed the CRISPR technique most commonly known as gene-editing were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last...
Environment
The EU should stop importing agricultural goods made using pesticides that are banned within the bloc, European Commissioner for Agriculture...
Arable
The European Parliament’s committee on pesticides has reached the wrong conclusions and disregarded key evidence, a new report concludes. Anthea...
Arable
The UK Government has refused two applications made to use neonicotinoid products as seed treatments for sugar beet. The applications...
Arable
A conservative agricultural spokesperson, has spoken out against a report on pesticides which she says “misrepresents” the findings of the...
Arable
A blunt warning has been issued to MEPs in Brussels by a leading UK tillage specialist against the perceived over-zealous...
Agri-Business
A total of 15.2% of sales are lost in Ireland each year due to counterfeit pesticides, a loss of €15m,...
EU
The European Commission has decided to register a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) inviting the Commission “to propose to Member States...
Environment
The number of public water supplies affected by pesticides that was noted in 2014 continued to increase last year, according...
Agri-Business
Of all the food samples collected in the EU in 2014, 97% were free of pesticide residues or contained traces that...
Environment
Under the Sustainable Use Directive (SUD) all boom sprayers greater than 3m and all blast and orchard sprayers must be...
Agri-Business
Nextgen Biopesticides, a company which uses selective breeding approaches to develop effective and safe biopesticides for the control of crop...
Arable
The deadline to become a trained and registered professional user of pesticides with the Department of Agriculture is November 26,...
Agri-Business
Two new crop protection active ingredients for weed and insect control have been developed by Dow Agrosciences. The new ingredients,...
World News
A drone in the US has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to carry fertilisers and pesticides to...
Arable
Scientists at Rothamsted Research have created new insect repellent odours that could help with crop protection pesticides. Together with Cardiff...
