The Soil Association has today (Monday, April 25) launched a petition calling on UK supermarkets to remove harmful pesticides from...
April 25, 2022
Red Tractor urgently needs to review and strengthen its promotion of non-chemical pesticide alternatives, including via Integrated Pest Management (IPM),...
March 15, 2022
Key target measures have been drafted as part of NI’s new river basin management strategy to crack down on water...
April 27, 2021
New Zealand’s tillage, horticulture and vegetable sectors have embarked on a seven-year programme, which should lead to the widespread implementation...
January 25, 2021
Well-known Swedish environmentalist campaigner Greta Thunberg has criticised the UK government for allowing farmers to continue using a bee-killing pesticide that...
January 11, 2021
The European Commission has published updated EU Harmonised Risk Indicators for pesticides, covering the period 2011 to 2018. The figures...
December 30, 2020
Two scientists who developed the CRISPR technique most commonly known as gene-editing were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last...
October 13, 2020
The EU should stop importing agricultural goods made using pesticides that are banned within the bloc, European Commissioner for Agriculture...
July 3, 2020
The European Parliament’s committee on pesticides has reached the wrong conclusions and disregarded key evidence, a new report concludes. Anthea...
April 13, 2019
The UK Government has refused two applications made to use neonicotinoid products as seed treatments for sugar beet. The applications...
October 11, 2018
A conservative agricultural spokesperson, has spoken out against a report on pesticides which she says “misrepresents” the findings of the...
September 14, 2018
A blunt warning has been issued to MEPs in Brussels by a leading UK tillage specialist against the perceived over-zealous...
March 23, 2017
A total of 15.2% of sales are lost in Ireland each year due to counterfeit pesticides, a loss of €15m,...
February 10, 2017
The European Commission has decided to register a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) inviting the Commission “to propose to Member States...
January 10, 2017
The number of public water supplies affected by pesticides that was noted in 2014 continued to increase last year, according...
October 28, 2016
Of all the food samples collected in the EU in 2014, 97% were free of pesticide residues or contained traces that...
October 27, 2016
Under the Sustainable Use Directive (SUD) all boom sprayers greater than 3m and all blast and orchard sprayers must be...
September 9, 2016
Nextgen Biopesticides, a company which uses selective breeding approaches to develop effective and safe biopesticides for the control of crop...
October 24, 2015
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