WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A popular herbicide is showing up in drinking water supplies, threatening its future use by Indiana farmers. Producers who use weed control products with the active ingredient ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has a lot of feedback to sift through — most of it critical — following the end of its comment period Friday on proposed measures designed to reduce the chances of ...

Invasive broadleaf weeds can destroy corn crops and fallow fields. Farmers use the chemical atrazine in herbicides to protect their plants. Despite atrazine's controversial environmental impacts, it ...

LSU AgCenter trials indicate you get better dollarweed control when you apply Atrazine by itself, not combined with a fertilizer. Q: We have a St. Augustine lawn with a dollarweed problem. I would ...

A wide variety of agricultural pesticides is used on farms, including herbicides, crop and livestock insecticides, fungicides, and fumigants (Curwin et al., 2005a). Farmers may be exposed to these ...

Scientists say atrazine maker Syngenta has long muddied the public's understanding of risks related to its product in an effort to delay stricter regulations Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has picked a fight ...

Although growers have already planted grain sorghum in parts of Texas, growers in much of the Plains and other regions of the country will be planting sorghum over the next few weeks. To successfully ...

On Aug. 17, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, R-MO, and Rep. Tracey Mann, R-KS, led 92 of their House colleagues, most from farm states, in pushing back on the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent ...

In the spring and summer of 2001, as part of a larger study investigating farm family pesticide exposure and home contamination in Iowa, urine and hand wipe samples were collected from 24 male farmers ...

MADISON, WI, JANUARY 19, 2011 – Invasive broadleaf weeds can destroy corn crops and fallow fields. Farmers use the chemical atrazine in herbicides to protect their plants. Despite atrazine's ...