Soybean rust was first discovered in Brazil during the 2000/01 growing season and since then, the disease has cost Brazilian producers billions of dollars in control cost and lost production. The Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics (Cepea) worked with the National Plant Protection Bureau (Andef) to monitor the evolution of diseases and pests […]
China’s nation-wide work safety inspection is currently ongoing, and is being expanded to cover more regions. As a result, there is an increase in the number of factories in which production has been shut down or restricted. Compared to last month, the major production of herbicide and insecticide varieties have remained slow, though there is […]
BY IAN HENDERSON California has moved to ban the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos, linking its use to the development of neurological problems in infants and children. Chlorpyrifos is used on a number of produce nationwide, including almonds, citrus, cotton, grapes and walnuts. This is seen as a move by the state to oppose the Trump […]
The Trump administration is trying to do what the George W. Bush and Obama administrations couldn’t: Update and streamline USDA’s 32-year-old process for genetically engineered crops. The latest proposal from USDA – and the third since 2008 – would exempt from regulation traits that could be created through traditional breeding, and companies would be allowed […]
Health Canada is proposing the cancellation of many uses of chlorpyrifos due to risks to the environment, with a small number of uses acceptable for continued registration in Canada. Chlorpyrifos is a broad spectrum insecticide that is widely used to manage insects in production of fruits, vegetables, cereals, grains, legumes, tree nuts, oilseeds, greenhouse and […]
The Trump administration announced Friday that it’s ending special trade treatment for India, removing a status that exempts billions of dollars of the country’s products from US tariffs. “I have determined that India has not assured the United States that India will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets,” President Donald Trump said in […]
According to a speech from deputy general agriculturist, Zhang Wenjun, from China’s ICAMA (Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture) at the second Pesticide Formulation and Adjuvant Congress held in Leshan, Sichuan, China, today, the volume of the Chinese pesticide adjuvant market exceeds 500,000 tons per year. With the promotion of aerial application […]
Planting progress for the 2019 U.S. soybean crop has also been very slow with 29% of the soybeans planted compared to 74% last year and 66% for the 5-year average. These planting delays could have significant implications concerning the 2019 U.S. soybean production. Planted soybean acreage – The eventual 2019 U.S. soybean planted acreage is […]
European Ministers are considering updating EU rules on genetic modification (GM) after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled gene editing must be governed by GM regulations. Gene editing speeds up traditional breeding processes, allowing insect- or disease-resistant varieties of crops of breeds of animals to be developed quickly by replacing one DNA sequence with […]