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Bayer-Monsanto merger reflects larger trends in global agrochemical industry

Philipp Requat | 
The progress of the Bayer-Monsanto mega-takeover, which [recently] secured regulatory approval from European Union (EU) competition authorities, is only the ...
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It’s official: California will require cancer warning label on coffee products

Brian Melley | 
A Los Angeles judge has determined that coffee companies must carry an ominous cancer warning label because of a chemical ...
With growing season nearing, concerns rise over more potential dicamba damage as Missouri lawsuit proceeds

With growing season nearing, concerns rise over more potential dicamba damage as Missouri lawsuit proceeds

Bryce Gray | 
Eyes on wide swaths of the nation's farmland are sure to look out for continued damage from dicamba – divisive ...
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Sri Lankan government split on whether to lift ban on glyphosate herbicide

Kasun Warakapitiya | 
The Cabinet [the council of ministers that form the central government of Sri Lanka] is to decide whether the ban on ...
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Viewpoint: House Democrats’ ‘glyphosate-is-dangerous’ report shows liberals can be science deniers too

Kevin Folta | 
The discussions around agricultural technologies, especially herbicides, are nuanced and complex.  So if someone gets the basic information completely wrong, ...
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Video: How insect-resistant GMO crops help keep nearby organic farms pest free

Nick Saik | 
Are Genetically Engineered crops good or bad for the surrounding environment? GREAT QUESTION! New research from the University of Maryland ...
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Correlation study of 71 Indiana women suggests glyphosate in urine may be linked to shorter pregnancies

In what they claim is the first prospective birth cohort study of its kind, U.S. researchers have linked likely environmental ...
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Bee-friendly pesticides? Protein discovery could lead to less toxic neonicotinoid insecticides

Catherine Offord | 
[S]tudies have shown that not all the compounds are equally toxic to [honeybees], suggesting that there might be variation in ...
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New Zealand’s EPA says local scientists’ criticisms of glyphosate rely mostly on ‘media references and opinion’

The [New Zealand] Environmental Protection Authority is shrugging off criticism of its processes by a group of mainly Wellington scientists. Writing in ...
How Bayer-Monsanto merger might impact research efforts to find alternatives to the herbicide glyphosate

How Bayer-Monsanto merger might impact research efforts to find alternatives to the herbicide glyphosate

Nicholas Hirst, Simon Marks | 
Approval of the mega deal in Europe comes in the wake of similar decisions in South Africa, Brazil and China ...
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100% organic farming would require ‘Australia-sized amount of extra land’ due to lower yields, no synthetic fertilizer

Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Linus Blomqvist | 
Organic farming, which prohibits the use of synthetic fertilizers, is often touted as the solution to many of agriculture’s environmental ...
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10 years of GMO canola in Australia: How have farmers fared?

Fiona Myers | 
When genetically modified crops were first mooted for Victorian farmers, agronomic advantages were the last thing that received publicity. Ten ...
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EU approves Bayer’s $57 billion takeover of Monsanto

Raf Casert | 
The European Union has approved Bayer's buyout of Monsanto in a massive agriculture business deal, but says they will have ...
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European Commission faces increasing political pressure to back neonicotinoid insecticides ban to protect bees

Sarantis Michalopoulos | 
EU lawmakers have urged the European Commission to convince member states to back its proposal to ban neonicotinoids and avoid ...
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Did the EPA and Monsanto conspire to hide glyphosate’s health risks?

Cameron English | 
A recent op-ed in the Sacramento Bee repeated the debunked conspiracy theory that Monsanto manipulated the EPA to hide evidence ...
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Video: Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide fiasco explained

Nick Saik | 
Dicamba… Miracle herbicide? Ultimate boondoggle? Bit of both really… These videos talks about why a 50 years old herbicide is ...
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French scientists call on politicians to listen to science, not ‘scare-mongers’ on GMOs, glyphosate

Jean-Paul Oury | 
Virginie Tournay, of CEVIPOF, a scientific research institute at the famous Science Po [Paris Institute of Political Studies] published the following article ...
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Neonicotinoid insecticide levels ‘well below’ those toxic to aquatic life in Canada, research shows

Robin Booker | 
A study into the presence of neonicotinoids in Canadian waterways suggests a ban or restriction of neonicotinoid seed treatments is ...
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Far more toxic than glyphosate: Copper sulfate, used by organic and conventional farmers, cruises to European reauthorization

Andrew Porterfield | 
Over the past months, the European Union and several member nations have vigorously debated re-authorizing glyphosate, the herbicide maligned by ...
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Viewpoint: Unlikely alliance between environmentalists, farmers and big ag companies aims to improve soil health

Brad Fabbri | 
Here are three startling facts about the planet Earth: It currently hosts seven and a half billion people. Its carrying ...
Breakthrough research into how glyphosate resistance evolves might lead to new weed control strategies

Breakthrough research into how glyphosate resistance evolves might lead to new weed control strategies

Kansas State University researchers have discovered how weeds develop resistance to the popular herbicide glyphosate, a finding that could have ...
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Should you pay as much as a 300% premium for organic foods? Avoid EWG’s ‘dirty dozen’?

Joanna Khan | 
Have you ever found yourself standing in the supermarket, wondering how to justify forking out $6 per kilo for those ...
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Monsanto glyphosate class action suit dealt another blow as judge says evidence of cancer link ‘pretty sparse’

Joel Rosenblatt | 
A lawsuit claiming Monsanto Co.’s popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer was dealt a blow by a judge’s conclusions that ...
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Should we worry about trace pesticides on fruits and vegetables?

Steve Savage | 
An anti-GMO funded study promoted by Vani Hari--Food Babe--that found parts per billion trace residues of the herbicide glyphosate in ...
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Glyphosate traces found in wine: Should we be concerned?

Joe Schwarcz | 
Scarcely a day goes by without some scary story about glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide. ... Because of ...
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Viewpoint: California judge blocks spraying of citrus-killing Asian psyllid, courting disaster

Amanda Zaluckyj | 
“Judge Orders California Agriculture Officials to Cease Pesticide Use" ... The judge’s decision is so scary because he just indefinitely ...
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Anti-GMO demonization of conventional agriculture has consequences

Toban Dick | 
The negative rhetoric surrounding GMOs, big ag and non-organic food production is due for a reckoning. At some point, many ...
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