5/9/19: Defying the Trump EPA’s longstanding inaction, California is now in the process of banning chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children. California…
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4/30/19: A bill that would ban the use of pesticides containing chlorpyrifos was passed by the Senate Health Committee in early April, step one in the process of a total ban becoming…
4/30/19: In order to support their goals of food industry collaboration towards greater natural resource management, improvements in productivity, environmental quality and human well-being, on Friday, the Stewardship Index for…
4/29/19: The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is now accepting applications from military veterans who want to attend their week-long Armed to Farm (ATF) training in Vermont. ATF allows…
4/25/19: Last Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler three months to justify why chlorpyrifos should stay on the market. In 2017,…
4/17/2019: Following the 2018 UN High Level Political Forum, the One Planet network adopted ‘food systems’ as a cross-cutting theme for the year. Produced with the aim of helping audiences…
4/17/2019: On April 11th, the North Central IPM Center released a regenerative agriculture fact sheet. It’s intended to be a resource for Organic and IPM communities, or for anyone who…
4/3/19: The Maryland state Senate will consider a bill to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos more than two weeks after a majority in the House of Delegates approved a statewide prohibition…
4/3/19: The Western IPM Center’s April edition of its monthly newsletter is now online. This issue contains: Their draft list of newly updated IPM and pest management priorities in the…
4/3/19: Biofertilizers are fertilizers that contain living organisms. Compared to conventional fertilizers, they can reduce the amount of nutrients lost from cropland into the environment. This can have positive implications…