The Environmental Protection Agency is refining habitat maps and mitigation options for growers to ensure crop protection ...

Specialty crops, like fruits and vegetables, and pollinators can be sensitive to pesticides. That’s why the Nebraska Department of Agriculture is encouraging commercial specialty crop growers, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 2, 2021) Cover crops create habitat that draw in pest predators and help mitigate crop injury, finds research published in the journals Agroecosystems and Biological ...

Just as the Toyota Prius was a major environmental breakthrough in the automotive industry, so have pesticide treated seeds served as a similar breakthrough in sustainable agriculture. The Prius ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 19, 2020) A new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) finds that crop diversity in commercial agriculture is just as essential to ...

The team concluded that SafeWax is “an innovative technology with the potential to become a breakthrough in the field of ...

Michigan has more than 240 confirmed PFAS contamination sites, among the highest in the nation. PFAS, known as “forever ...

California is the nation’s leading grower of crops in the Brassica family, including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and kale, and it isn’t particularly close. Those crops, though, have ...

(CN) — Environmentalists and public health advocates sued the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to force the state to close a legal loophole that allows farmers to use crop seeds treated ...

As agriculture in the United States evolves, it’s becoming more intensive and less complex. That means larger fields, more cropland and less crop diversity with fewer crops in rotation. Ecological ...