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Environment commissioner criticizes neonic registrations

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News January 26, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s official environmental watchdog on Tuesday expressed concern that authorities were allowing the long-term use of pesticides linked to bee deaths despite not having enough information about the products. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) can grant a five-year provisional license to some products to give manufacturers time to provide

Livestock, Weather

Ontario weighs mandatory beekeeping practices in draft plan

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 25, 2016

Fresh off limiting farmers’ use of neonicotinoid seed treatments, the Ontario government now wants public comment on further moves it might make to improve the health of bees and other pollinators in the province. Among the “potential actions” up for consideration in the province’s new draft action plan are the use of public lands to expand

Western corn rootworm larvae. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops

Court to hear growers’ appeal of Ontario neonic rules

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 13, 2016

Ontario’s soybean and corn growers have been granted an appeal hearing in their bid to delay the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), the body for the province’s corn, soy, wheat, barley and oat growers, said Tuesday the Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to hear its case on March

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops

Regulatory reviews show slim risk to bees from imidacloprid

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 7, 2016

Label directions and rules for foliar and on-seed use of imidacloprid pesticides should either prevent or limit the risks to honeybees and other pollinators from the chemical, Canadian and U.S. regulators say in a new early-stage risk assessment. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday released

Crops

Quebec heading toward neonic limits on crops

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News November 23, 2015

The Quebec government is preparing consultations ahead of a wide legislative swath through the province’s pesticide sector, to limit farmers’ use of neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments and certain other pesticides. Environment Minister David Heurtel on Sunday released the province’s pesticide strategy for 2015 to 2018, mapping out the Couillard government’s plans in those years to

Crops

Court rejects Ont. growers’ bid for stay on neonic regs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 23, 2015

The association for Ontario corn and soybean growers is “evaluating several options” after its request for a stay of the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments was rejected. The Ontario Superior Court denied the request from Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) for a stay and interpretation on the neonic regulations, which became law in

Crops

Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 29, 2015

Ontario’s corn and soybean grower group is taking the province’s planned regulations on the use and sale of pesticide-treated seed to court. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) said Monday it filed a request late last week with the provincial Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, seeking a legal “interpretation” of the province’s rules on neonicotinoid-treated

Livestock, Weather

Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 18, 2015

Early data from federal pesticide regulators appear to suggest Ontario’s bee yards are moving past a spell of unusually high death losses seen around the 2012 and 2013 planting seasons. Combining the numbers of acute honey bee mortality “incidents” by bee yard in Ontario in the 2015 pre-planting and planting periods, up to June 11, Health Canada’s

Crops, Markets

Some timetables loosen as Ont. neonic limits become law

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 9, 2015

Ontario’s corn and soybean growers and seed dealers will have slightly more time to manage some of their new duties as the province’s limits on neonicotinoid pesticides become legally binding. Ontario’s environment ministry on Tuesday announced its new provincial regulations — with a handful of changes from the draft legislation first published in March —

Grain Farmers of Ontario chair Mark Brock speaks with media Friday on the front lawn of MPP Deb Matthews’ riding office in London, Ont. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Crops

Pearce: GFO goes informative rather than inflammatory

By GFM Network News June 1, 2015

It’s not that farmers in Ontario aren’t frustrated and angry concerning legislation aimed at curbing the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments. They are. However, during a protest Friday in front of Ontario Deputy Premier Deb Matthews’ riding office in London, executives with the Grain Farmers of Ontario and roughly 35 farmers took a more proactive

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Tag Archives Neonicotinoids

Environment commissioner criticizes neonic registrations

Ontario weighs mandatory beekeeping practices in draft plan

Court to hear growers’ appeal of Ontario neonic rules

Regulatory reviews show slim risk to bees from imidacloprid

Quebec heading toward neonic limits on crops

Court rejects Ont. growers’ bid for stay on neonic regs

Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

Some timetables loosen as Ont. neonic limits become law

Pearce: GFO goes informative rather than inflammatory

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