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Crops

Monsanto halts U.S. seed treatment launch after complaints of rashes

By Tom Polansek November 1, 2017
Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto put on hold the launch of a seed treatment on Wednesday, following reports it causes rashes on people, in the latest instance of complaints about […] Read more

(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Machinery

Dicamba label sufficient, Health Canada says

By John Greig October 19, 2017
Health Canada will not be further regulating the use of dicamba herbicide sprayed on growing crops, as has happened in the U.S. The government agency that regulates pesticides issued a […] Read more

Health Canada is calling for a three- to five-year phase-out of imidacloprid from farm use over potential risks to aquatic insects such as mayflies. (OttawaRiverkeeper.ca)
Crops

PMRA seeks phase-out for neonic pesticide imidacloprid

By Farmtario Staff November 23, 2016
Canadian farm use of the pesticide imidacloprid, from the controversial neonicotinoid family, is facing a three- to five-year phase-out from approval over its potential risks to aquatic insects. Health Canada’s […] Read more

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Crops

Re-evaluation leads to retirement for Amitrol herbicide

By Farmtario Staff February 11, 2016
Health concerns raised during the federal re-evaluation of Nufarm’s pre-seeding burndown herbicide Amitrol 240 have led the company to stop selling the product for nearly all uses in Canada, starting […] Read more

(Jack Dykinga photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops

Environment commissioner criticizes neonic registrations

By David Ljunggren January 26, 2016
Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s official environmental watchdog on Tuesday expressed concern that authorities were allowing the long-term use of pesticides linked to bee deaths despite not having enough information […] Read more


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Crops

Feds scrap ‘conditional’ pesticide approvals

By Dave Bedard January 21, 2016
Federal crop chemical regulators this summer will stop granting “conditional” registrations for new pesticides — a practice already largely on the way out, they note. Health Canada, which oversees the […] Read more

Western corn rootworm larvae. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops

Court to hear growers’ appeal of Ontario neonic rules

By Farmtario Staff January 13, 2016
Ontario’s soybean and corn growers have been granted an appeal hearing in their bid to delay the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), the body […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops

Regulatory reviews show slim risk to bees from imidacloprid

By Farmtario Staff January 7, 2016
Label directions and rules for foliar and on-seed use of imidacloprid pesticides should either prevent or limit the risks to honeybees and other pollinators from the chemical, Canadian and U.S. […] Read more


(Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops

U.S. court finds EPA wrong to approve sulfoxaflor over bee risks

By Carey Gillam September 11, 2015
Reuters — A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday that federal regulators erred in allowing an insecticide developed by Dow AgroSciences onto the market, canceling its approval and giving environmentalists […] Read more

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Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

By Farmtario Staff June 18, 2015
Early data from federal pesticide regulators appear to suggest Ontario’s bee yards are moving past a spell of unusually high death losses seen around the 2012 and 2013 planting seasons. Combining the […] Read more

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