Sentences with phrase «use of herbicides»

While not as tasty, use of herbicides in areas that pets frequent is usually the cause of those calls.

Widespread use of herbicides leads to the contamination of water and soil.

Increasing use of herbicides exposing more women and children to harmful pesticides throughout the Midwest A new project of the Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) highlights growing concern over sharply rising herbicide use and risks to pregnant women and children living in the rural Midwest.

She added that there are no crops that can fertilize themselves, one drought - tolerant crop and resistant weeds are now growing and leading to a greater use of herbicides.

Decrease in pollinator forage due to extensive mono - cropping and dramatic increase in non-selective use of herbicides

Use of herbicides also eliminates larval and pollinator host plants, transforming the base of food chains.

Targeted use of herbicides can then help establish strips of pollen - rich flowers to produce a habitat more attractive to bees and other insects.

Last year use of this herbicide was banned within 20 metres of any river.

An analysis of data in Illinois has found a link between higher county - level use of an herbicide called glyphosate and reduced abundance of adult monarch butterflies, especially in areas with concentrated agriculture.

This continues to increase exponentially, as the indiscriminate use of herbicides has provoked the increase of herbicide - resistant weeds (compare this to the indiscriminate use of antibiotics provoking antibiotic - resistant bacteria).

Large industrial monoculture farming practices that include no fallow time or alternating crops with the extensive use of herbicides and pesticides are rightly blamed for this lack of minerals.

I completely agree as their also seems to be a correlation with the increased use of the herbicide Round up on wheat near harvest to increase seed production.

For example, cotton is a natural product, but it can not be labeled organic unless it is grown to specific requirements, particularly since, unless organically grown, cotton can be subjected to liberal use of herbicides and pesticides.

It's usually quite plentiful in the wild in many parts of North America, but milkweed is also being threatened by the overzealous use of herbicides across North America.

But it differs in that farmers are still allowed to use inorganic fertilizers and to make judicious use of herbicides.

They don't want to accept that growing (GM) crops with massive use of herbicides can never be responsible.

Widespread use of the herbicide 2,4 - D carries a range of risks to human health, animals, and the environment, a

Other benefits of the Ovis Cycle include reducing the company's use of herbicides and manual labor, as the sheep eat weeds and vines that would otherwise be removed manually.

We notice that weeds are competing with chiles in growth — many varieties are grown organically here, without any use of herbicides or pesticides.

FYI from the Wholesome Sweeteners website: «Organic Powdered Sugar is made from 100 % certified organic sugar cane, grown and produced without the use of herbicides, pesticides or chemicals.

Current USDA NOP (National Organic Program) standards do not allow the use of the herbicide glyphosate on organic crops.

Organic farming does more for the environment than just reduce the use of herbicides and pesticides.

The use of herbicide resistant plants can result in greater use of herbicides, increasing the negative effects of intensive farming on natural biodiversity.

While in conventional agriculture in the tropics even flat soil gets eroded due to the use of herbicides and the lack of soil cover, in organic agriculture permanent soil cover is an intrinsic part the system.

The material is sustainable and can be harvested without the use of herbicides.

Organic farming does more for the environment than just reduce the use of herbicides and pesticides.

ELLERY - Public comment is now being accepted for the environmental impact statement involving the use of herbicides on Chautauqua Lake to treat invasive weeds.

ELLERY - Town of Ellery has extended the comment period for the environmental impact statement for the use of herbicides on Chautauqua Lake by four days.

Supplemented by documents and photographs from the AAAS Archives, the timeline highlights the contributions of the Pacific Division over the last century, including presentations on the causes of the Dust Bowl during the division's meetings in the 1930s, a resolution against the use of herbicides by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, and partnerships with Russian scientists after the end of the Cold War.

But the EPA said last week it had thoroughly evaluated the risks, and was requiring many restrictions on use of the herbicide.

Widespread use of the herbicide 2,4 - D carries a range of risks to human health, animals, and the environment, a coalition of U.S. farmer and environmental groups alleges

While chemical weed killers were in use before the advent of GM crops, the use of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as Roundup, has skyrocketed since the introduction in the 1990s of crops engineered to withstand it.

Current USDA NOP (National Organic Program) standards do not allow the use of the herbicide glyphosate on organic crops.

Food safety, including independent testing and research of Genetically Modified crops and the use of herbicides (Roundup) and pesticides on humans, animals, and the planet.

There are other environmental consequences to the rapid adoption of GMO crops, such as an increase in the use of herbicides and pesticides, which may have wider reaching consequences for ecosystems.

But extreme weather conditions are something the monarch mass migration has faced before; in fact, it's really habitat loss that is killing them - including forest degradation, poor land use (such as farming on steep slopes) and the use of herbicide in massively - expanding, genetically - modified corn and soybean farms, which eliminates wild food sources for the monarch.

Substance based is the use of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and fertilizers at recommended rates to address any weed, pest, disease or nutrient problem.

And if the «poisoning the planet» argument isn't enough to quell the use of herbicides, maybe the simple fact that they don't work, will.