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U.S. EPA ordered to reassess glyphosate impact on health, environment

Decision doesn't prohibit Roundup's use

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Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was ordered by a federal appeals court on Friday to take a fresh look at whether glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer’s Roundup herbicide, poses unreasonable risks to humans and the environment. In a 3-0 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with several environmental, farmworker
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Stocking up for a shortage-plagued spring

There’s a long list of ag products under supply strain while one of farming’s busiest seasons is about to ramp up

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This isn’t going to be one of those springs where you can stroll into your local ag retailer and be confident you’ll be leaving with everything you need. Supply chain issues of all stripes have kept inventories of all kinds across the country depleted, even as spring approaches. The list of ag products facing supply
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Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

Company provides heads-up on 'force majeure event'

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No one is yet using the word ‘shortage’ but farmers may need to get ready for less Roundup temporarily, following a “force majeure” event at a plant supplying an ingredient in the recipe for glyphosate. Bayer, the chemical company whose Roundup brand remains the best known of the glyphosate herbicides, reported as much in an
Before Roundup first hit the market in the early 1970s, farmers only had two options for weed control — cultivation (six or seven times prior to seeding, in some cases) or expensive selective herbicides that left residues. The former wasn’t just causing soil loss but also eroding the bottom line.
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A world without Roundup is a ‘real threat,’ says New Zealand farmer

But reduced use is an option and can thwart both proposed bans and resistance

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Glacier FarmMedia – Glyphosate changed farming across the globe — but if farmers don’t want to lose the ‘chemical of the century’ entirely, they’d better use it less often. That’s the view of a seed grower from New Zealand who made farming without glyphosate the focus of his Nuffield research. It’s hard to overstate the
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Bayer wins second straight verdict in a Roundup cancer case

Plaintiff's settlement demands unreasonable, company said

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Reuters — A California jury found that Bayer’s Roundup herbicide was not the cause of a woman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Bayer said on Thursday, delivering the chemical giant its second trial victory over claims the popular herbicide causes cancer. The jury in San Bernardino County found that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was not caused by her exposure
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Letters: Glyphosate review warranted

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As noted in the article Glyphosate: treating science like a buffet (Manitoba Co-operator, Aug. 19), public pressure has caused Health Canada to delay a proposed increase to the amount of glyphosate allowed on legumes as a residue. The authors of the article then go on to suggest that the idea of glyphosate being dangerous (other

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