Insights and Stories on Herbicides

US allows farmers to use existing supplies of dicamba weedkillers

Feb. 14, 2024 at 5:40 pm CST

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that farmers can use some existing supplies of herbicides based on the chemical dicamba, despite a federal court ruling last week that halted sprayings.

The problem with pigweeds

Jan. 19, 2024 at 11:07 am CST

By Don Norman

Ag chem maker FMC looks to sell non-core assets

Nov. 17, 2023 at 7:41 pm CST

By Reuters

Agritechnica update: Give a big shock to weeds

Nov. 15, 2023 at 9:36 am CST

By Glacier FarmMedia

Do you know your MRLs?

Aug. 11, 2023 at 9:33 am CDT

By Don Norman

At Ag in Motion: Herbicide resistance fight needs integrated seed management

Jul. 20, 2023 at 5:18 pm CDT

Harvest weed-seed control takes aim at reducing herbicide-resistant weeds that western Canadian farmers find more and more every year. At the Ag in Motion outdoor farm show this week, field residue management manufacturer Redekop won the Innovations Award for Environmental Sustainability for its harvest Seed Control Unit, which destroys more […]

By Braedyn Wozniak

At Ag in Motion: Harvest weed control still in the mix

Jul. 18, 2023 at 5:39 pm CDT

It’s a relatively new solution to the age-old problem of trying to get rid of weeds without broadcasting the seed or using increasingly less effective herbicides — mechanical separation and pulverization of weed seed. Harvest weed seed control might not be a golden bullet to tackle glyphosate-, fluroxypyr- and dicamba-resistant […]

By Alex McCuaig

Keep a watchful eye for herbicide resistance

Jul. 13, 2023 at 5:12 pm CDT

You’ve sprayed the weeds in your field and hung your hat on a job well done. Maybe not so fast. Dennis Lange, provincial pulse and soybean specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, suggests it’s doubly important to scout for weeds that potentially escaped herbicide treatment (if any) and quickly find out why. […]

Ag input firm FMC’s shares tumble after lowering financial targets

Jul. 10, 2023 at 8:17 pm CDT

Reuters — Shares of FMC Corp. fell more than eight per cent on Monday after the agricultural products supplier cut its outlook for the year on volume declines in most of its major markets. “Towards the end of May, we experienced unforeseen and unprecedented volume declines in three out of […]

By Reuters

French court bans sale of two Touchdown glyphosates

May. 16, 2023 at 1:01 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — A French court has banned the sale of two glyphosate-based herbicides produced by Swiss chemical group Syngenta because of a lack of analysis on the chemical’s potential harm to some wildlife. “The decision on Sept. 30, 2020 by French health security agency ANSES to renew the […]

By Reuters

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