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Thinking of bees

By Laura Rance-Unger May 26, 2014

Bees rank right up there with climate change these days for the volume of studies and stories that cross a farm newspaper editor’s desk. Sometimes the two are even linked, such as the prediction that Africanized honeybees, which can be fatally aggressive, will make their way north from the southern U.S. as median temperatures rise.

Crops

NFU sees moratorium on neonicotinoids

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

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 14, 2014

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

Crops

Environmental groups challenge PMRA over neonicotinoid approval

Conditional registration has been granted despite the objections

By Alex Binkley April 9, 2014

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

Livestock

Surge in bee deaths has made colony collapse disorder a political issue

By Alex Binkley May 14, 2013

The humble honeybee has Ottawa and Washington abuzz these days thanks to some controversial dust. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has released a protection protocol for honeybee populations, the Commons agriculture committee has launched a study of threats to bees, the Green Party and Sierra Club want an immediate ban of a controversial class of

Crops, News

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

By Alex Binkley May 7, 2013

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

By Carey Gillam March 28, 2013

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

By Reuters March 22, 2013

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, Grain Markets

CWB announces 2011-12 final payments

February 23, 2013

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

By Claire Davenport February 12, 2013

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.

News

Study says pesticide combinations put bumblebee colonies at risk

By Alister Doyle October 26, 2012

Reuters / Pesticides used in farming are also killing worker bumblebees and damaging their ability to gather food, meaning colonies that are vital for plant pollination are more likely to fail when they are used, says a study released Oct. 22. The United Nations has estimated that a third of all plant-based foods eaten by

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Thinking of bees

NFU sees moratorium on neonicotinoids

Environmental groups challenge PMRA over neonicotinoid approval

Surge in bee deaths has made colony collapse disorder a political issue

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

Beekeepers ask courts to ban controversial pesticides

PMRA reviews insecticide link to bee deaths

CWB announces 2011-12 final payments

EU Commission wants curbs on pesticides to protect bees

Study says pesticide combinations put bumblebee colonies at risk

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