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Western corn rootworm larvae. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Court to hear growers’ appeal of Ontario neonic rules

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 13, 2016

Ontario’s soybean and corn growers have been granted an appeal hearing in their bid to delay the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), the body for the province’s corn, soy, wheat, barley and oat growers, said Tuesday the Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to hear its case on March […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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Regulatory reviews show slim risk to bees from imidacloprid

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 7, 2016

Label directions and rules for foliar and on-seed use of imidacloprid pesticides should either prevent or limit the risks to honeybees and other pollinators from the chemical, Canadian and U.S. regulators say in a new early-stage risk assessment. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday released […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters, Spring Wheat

U.S. court finds EPA wrong to approve sulfoxaflor over bee risks

By GFM Network News September 11, 2015

Reuters — A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday that federal regulators erred in allowing an insecticide developed by Dow AgroSciences onto the market, canceling its approval and giving environmentalists a major victory. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, is significant for commercial beekeepers and others […] Read more

Corn, Livestock, Soybeans, Weather

Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 18, 2015

Early data from federal pesticide regulators appear to suggest Ontario’s bee yards are moving past a spell of unusually high death losses seen around the 2012 and 2013 planting seasons. Combining the numbers of acute honey bee mortality “incidents” by bee yard in Ontario in the 2015 pre-planting and planting periods, up to June 11, Health Canada’s […] Read more

Crops

PMRA review calls for slim changes to glyphosate label

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 14, 2015

A federal re-evaluation of glyphosate’s health risks leaves the popular herbicide’s status unchanged in Canada — but proposes tweaks to the product label as a “risk-reduction” measure. Products containing glyphosate “do not present unacceptable risks to human health or the environment when used according to the proposed label directions,” Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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Court to hear growers’ appeal of Ontario neonic rules

Regulatory reviews show slim risk to bees from imidacloprid

U.S. court finds EPA wrong to approve sulfoxaflor over bee risks

Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

PMRA review calls for slim changes to glyphosate label

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