Sentences with phrase «pesticide use in the fields»

Adding these crops will enrich biodiversity, which largely reduces a crop's vulnerability against disease, and reduce fertilizer and pesticide use in the fields.

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McDonald's does, and it's using the software and database developed by Red Deer firm Agri - Trend to track pesticide inputs on all the North American potato fields that end up in its restaurants.

In the southern USA, arsenic - containing pesticides were once heavily used on cotton fields that today may grown organic brown rice — so even your «healthy» choices may not be so great for you.

At Arrowhead Mills ®, we pride ourselves in organic farming using no potentially harmful pesticides or herbicides, no artificial preservatives, flavors or colors and no genetically engineered ingredients in our organic fields and crops.

We initiated a recycling program for facilities and parks, developed an integrated pest management program aimed at reducing use of pesticides and herbicides on playing fields and lawns, later banned smoking in District buildings and vehicles before that practice became state law, and continued to protect our natural areas through local leadership.

• A Steuben County sheep farmer and two others last year for allegedly poisoning two bald eagles and a red - tailed hawk; • A Niagara County farmer who inadvertently killed three juvenile bald eagles in 2014 by putting poisoned meat on his farm in an effort to kill coyotes; • And a farmer in Allegany County who several years ago applied left - over pesticide to a corn field to «use up the product,» killing a pair of bald eagles and nearly three dozen geese.

A new pesticide which some scientists have likened to DDT will not be registered in the United States for use on cotton fields, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday.

Farmers began using the biological pesticide on their fields in the early 1900s.

«Often, people criticize related research saying scientists use higher doses of these pesticides than are realistic, or apply them for a much longer time than would be seen in the field.

They advise parents to be vigilant about the industrial cleaners used in school buildings and the pesticides sprayed on playing fields, where kids spend 25 to 30 hours per week.

Well, arsenic - based pesticides had been used more than a century on millions of acres of cotton fields, noted to be «a dangerous practice» back in 1927.

Scientists compared two batches of Brazilian tomatoes, one which was grown in organic fields and one grown conventionally using artificial nitrate based fertilisers and pesticides.

All three showed that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides, whether used on crops in the fields or to control cockroaches in apartments, can cause long - term effects on the brain health of children — a «bombshell» finding.

I was at Aldo Leopold's «Shack» in Baraboo, Wis.; at the World Food Prize Foundation conference in Des Moines; and then out in the fields of Ames, Iowa, where a sustainable - agriculture team at Iowa State University is showing how to grow bountiful crops of soybeans and corn with far less fertilizer and pesticide than is used in the standard industrial - style pattern of planting.

Some specialists in carbon sequestration through forests and farm fields, including Kevin Gurney at Purdue, have told me the policy here is out ahead of the science, given that it remains difficult to measure precisely how much, or even whether, a particular change — for example from plowing fields to no - till agriculture using pesticides to kill weeds — improves the rate of carbon sequestration.

sir no doubt organic pesticides are very effective in controlling most of the plant diseases and pests vizaviz protecting the envirinment but the most important drawback is that it cant be used on a small patch surrounded by inorganically treated crops / fields, so the way out is to popularize the use of organics among farmers as a holestic approach.

The team also highlights concerns around the validity of the field tests used to approve these new pesticides, suggesting that it may be almost impossible to set up «control» colonies out in the field that are not exposed to neonicotinoids.

But what the two new studies show is a clear link between pesticide - use in the field, as opposed to the laboratory, and large - scale bee declines.

People are also more aware than ever that industrial pollutants and pesticides from farm fields can contaminate water supplies, to the point where drinking bottled water and using water filtration systems in homes is commonplace.