Sentences with phrase «of agricultural chemicals»

But the problem of declining bee health might actually be getting worse, largely because the factor of agricultural chemicals lies at the nexus of science, finance and politics.

The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals... which is bad news for crop productivity and food security.

Interestingly, also negative effects of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers and pesticides can be seen even at the coarse European scale and even more worrying is the fact that these negative effects are likely to be amplified with increasing temperatures as they can be expected from climate change.

This non-profit organization brought together manufacturers of agricultural chemicals, including DuPont, and industry organizations.

I don't want to minimize the benefits of some agricultural chemicals, or oversimplify the complexities in growing coffee in environmentally or economically sustainable ways.

Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd. (FCG), the worldâ $ ™ s largest dairy exporter, assured its biggest customer China that traces of an agricultural chemical found in some milk products posed no health risk, Chief Executive Officer Theo Spierings said.

Do you get a different plankton bloom if you exactly mimic Mother Nature than if you exactly mimic some supplier of agricultural chemicals?

When environmental engineer David Cwiertny began analyzing the fate of an agricultural chemical called trenbolone acetate in streams across the United States, he and his colleagues stumbled into a B - grade horror film starring a vampire steroid.

American Vanguard Corp. is a holding company which through its subsidiaries engages in manufacturing of agricultural chemicals.

Now it appears that in their courageous battle to protect us from information overload, the US Department of Agriculture has cancelled the annual publication of the Agricultural Chemical Usage Report, which lists the kinds and amounts of pesticides applied to crops.

From our Green Basics series: «Conventional cotton is one of the most chemically - dependent crops, sucking up 10 percent of all agricultural chemicals and 25 percent of insecticides on 3 percent of our arable land.

The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals; which is bad news for crop productivity and food security... but may have a silver lining.

Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring, documented the pernicious effects of agricultural chemicals and served as a rallying point for the modern environmental movement.

In Europe laws that limit the use of agricultural chemicals and the exposure of human workers to such chemicals have already made lettuce - weeding robots competitive with human labor.

«This bipartisan measure would have cut costs for business, opened up new opportunities for farmers, reduced the use of agricultural chemicals and cut carbon emissions,» Leno said in a statement released Friday.

Neither does the use of agricultural chemicals.