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NFU sees moratorium on neonicotinoids

The Senate committee is studying the importance of bees to food production in Canada

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The National Farmers Union (NFU) appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry May 1 to call for a five-year moratorium on the use of neonicotinoids on corn and soybeans in Ontario. The Senate committee is currently studying the importance of bees and bee health in the production of honey, food and seed
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Crops

Environmental groups challenge PMRA over neonicotinoid approval

Conditional registration has been granted despite the objections

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Four environmental organizations have attacked the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) for extending the conditional registration of clothianidin, a neonicotinoid insecticide, as a spray treatment until the end of 2015. The groups say PMRA didn’t properly consider two Notices of Objection to the renewal and the registration extension could keep the product on the market
Crops, News

Treated corn seed linked to bee kills, Health Canada urges farmers to use best practices

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Government issues list of 25 best practices to lower the risk of contamination 
instead of following Europe’s lead and banning neonicotinoid insecticides

Another round of “bee incidents” last year has prompted Health Canada to issue an updated list of mitigation measures to corn farmers who may have inadvertently killed the pollinators. A severe death rate during planting season in 2012 has been linked to a dry spell and widespread use of nitro-guanidine neonicotinoid insecticides on corn seed.
Crops

Beekeepers ask courts to ban controversial pesticides

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U.S. environmental regulators are failing to protect honeybees and should immediately suspend use of some toxic insecticides tied to the widespread deaths of bees, charges a new lawsuit. “It is a catastrophe in progress,” said migratory beekeeper Steve Ellis, who maintains 2,000 hives for pollinating crops from Minnesota to California. “We have an ongoing problem
Crops, Livestock, News

PMRA reviews insecticide link to bee deaths

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A class of insecticides that could be banned in the European Union because of their risk to honeybees is also under review in Canada. The neonicotinoid class includes imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam products which are the basis for several popular insecticides and seed treatments in Canada. Imidacloprid products include Bayer’s Admire and Gaucho, and thiamethoxam
Crops

Streamlined approval process leads to expanded labels for horticulture products

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Aslimmed-down federal approval process will allow Canadian fruit and vegetable growers some expanded uses of an insecticide and two fungicides this spring. Bayer CropScience credited recent “regulatory synchronization” between Canada and the U.S. for the expanded labels on Admire insecticide and Reason and Flint fungicides announced Feb. 19. The approval covers uses for which the
Crops, Grain Markets

CWB announces 2011-12 final payments

CWB is issuing final payments to farmers for the wheat, durum wheat and barley delivered during the 2011-12 crop year. Final and total payments for base grades basis Vancouver or St. Lawrence are 1 CWRS, 12.5 per cent $13.79/$290.49; 1 CWAD, 12.5 per cent $14.54/$345.24 and Select CW Two-Row barley $16.34/$312.94. A full list is
Crops

EU Commission wants curbs on pesticides to protect bees

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Reuters / The European Commission said Jan. 31 it wanted EU member states to restrict the use of pesticides linked to the decline of bees. The commission said it was asking EU countries to suspend the use of neonicotinoid insecticides — among the most commonly used crop pesticides — on sunflower, rapeseed, maize and cotton.
Crops, Oilseeds

Regulatory approval

Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, has received Canadian regulatory approval for cultivation, feed and food use of Optimum GLY brand canola, its proprietary glyphosate-tolerant canola. Pioneer expects to commercialize the product mid-decade, pending key regulatory approvals from export markets globally. Optimum GLY canola was developed, in part, through exclusive DNA shuffling technology to provide tolerance
Crops, Oilseeds

New Insecticide For Soybeans

Bayer CropScience has received registration for Concept insecticide, making it available to soybean and horticulture growers across Canada for the 2011 growing season. “Concept is a revolutionary broad-spectrum foliar insecticide that delivers quick knockdown and residual protection against soybean aphid and Japanese beetle, and suppression of bean leaf beetle in soybean crops,” said Greg Good,

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