Flathead Beacon Two new powerful herbicides may not make it to the market this year because the Department of Agriculture subjected 2,4-D and dicamba to additional safety testing. Most of the soybeans, corn, sugar beets and cotton grown in the United States were ... and more »
Businessweek The decision by the USDA to prepare an environmental impact statement on Monsanto's application to deregulate soybeans and cotton engineered to tolerate dicamba herbicide will delay commercial sales by about one-and-a-half years, Grant said. Sales in ... and more »
Southwest Farm Press APHIS noted that both herbicides “have been safely and widely used across the country since the 1960s to control weeds on crop and non-crop sites....
STLtoday.com The company also gets dealt the occasional setback by American regulators, including a recent announcement saying they would conduct more extensive environmental reviews on a new soybean designed to tolerate applications of the chemical, dicamba . and more »
The Castlegar Source “GE crops can lay claim to really only two traits – the herbicide tolerant gene, as in Roundup Ready, and the Bt pesticide gene ( Bacillus thuringiensis ), which renders the entire plant a pesticide factory,” noted the BC MP. “All the inherent qualities ...
AgWired Pending regulatory approvals, the Roundup Ready® Xtend™ Crop System will introduce Roundup Ready 2 Xtend™ soybeans, which are tolerant to dicamba and glyphosate herbicides. Featuring in-field training demonstrations, the Learning Xperience ... and more »
FarmersWeekly Next year sees the debut of glyphosate/ dicamba resistant soya beans and I hope that will improve weed control. The key will be managing this GM technology so we don't end up with weeds resistant to this active as well. Brian Hind farms 1,250ha of ...
The Real News Network They include known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors and other toxins such as Alachlor, Acetochlor, Atrazine , Clopyralid, Dicamba and Thiodicarb. Not only does Monsanto never take responsibility for the impact of its poisonous chemicals, but they do ... and more »
