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U.S. EPA proposing temporary pesticide-free zones for honeybees

By Carey Gillam, GFM Network News May 28, 2015

Reuters — U.S. environmental regulators on Thursday proposed a rule that would create temporary pesticide-free zones to protect commercial honeybees, which are critical to food production and have been dying off at alarming rates. The restrictions are aimed at protecting bees from “pesticides that are acutely toxic” to them, and would cover foliar applications when

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Ontario won’t widen comment window on neonics: GFO

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 5, 2015

The public comment period on Ontario’s planned regulations for neonicotinoid seed treatments will close Thursday as scheduled, despite requests from the province’s grain grower group for an extension. The province has “refused” to extend the public comment period on the use of the insecticide group in seed treatments, Grain Farmers of Ontario said in a

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GFO seeks longer comment period on neonic regs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 27, 2015

Grain Farmers of Ontario wants the province’s environment ministry to reconsider the rush on the comment period for its proposed new controls on neonicotinoid seed treatments. The province has given the public, farmers included, a 45-day period ending May 7 to comment on its proposed regulations. “This is one of the busiest times of the

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Neonic rules ‘unworkable’ for Ont. corn, soy growers

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

Ontario’s planned regulation to limit the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments might as well be a ban from where the organization sits representing the province’s corn and soy producers. After reviewing the draft regulation, which provincial officials posted March 23 for public comment until May 7, Grain Farmers of Ontario said Thursday it “strongly opposes

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Lowe’s to phase out sales of neonics by 2019

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 9, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Home improvement chain Lowe’s will stop selling a type of pesticide suspected of causing a decline in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, following a few U.S. retailers who took similar steps last year. The pesticides known as neonicotinoids (neonics) are sold by agrichemical companies to boost yields of

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Pesticides could lead to ‘pollination deficit,’ EU report says

By Barbara Lewis, GFM Network News April 8, 2015

Brussels | Reuters –– Evidence is mounting that widely-used pesticides harm moths, butterflies and birds as well as bees, adding to concerns crop production could be hit by a shortage of pollinators, according to a report drawn up for EU policymakers. The European Commission, the EU executive, placed restrictions on three neonicotinoid pesticides from Dec.

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Ontario’s neonic limits tabled for public comment

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 24, 2015

Proposed new controls on the use and sale of corn and soybean seed treated with neonicotinoid pesticides in Ontario are up for public comment between now and early May. The provincial government made its move Monday — three days ahead of a scheduled meeting between Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal and Grain Farmers of Ontario chairman

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Ont. ag minister to review GFO proposal on bee health, neonics

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 13, 2015

Ontario corn and soybean growers have secured a meeting with the provincial ag minister on the farmers’ proposed Plan B to balance crop pest control against bee health. Grain Farmers of Ontario said Thursday its representatives will meet March 26 with Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal to discuss the proposals laid out in GFO’s Ontario Pollinator

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Ontario’s curbs on neonics may protect bees but diminish crops

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel November 26, 2014

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Ontario’s move to protect bees by reducing use of a pesticide seed treatment may diminish corn and soybean production, seed companies said on Wednesday. Beekeepers welcomed the move by Ontario, the first North American government to curb use of seed treated with neonicotinoids, which are used to kill insects that harm

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Ontario proposes deep cuts to farmers’ neonic use by 2017

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 25, 2014

Ontario’s new goal to ban most use of neonicotinoid pesticides in corn and soybean crops by 2017 has yielded bouquets from the province’s beekeepers — but left crop growers feeling stung. Following up on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s orders to her agriculture and environment ministers in their mandate letters in September, the province on Tuesday announced it will consult on

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U.S. EPA proposing temporary pesticide-free zones for honeybees

Ontario won’t widen comment window on neonics: GFO

GFO seeks longer comment period on neonic regs

Neonic rules ‘unworkable’ for Ont. corn, soy growers

Lowe’s to phase out sales of neonics by 2019

Pesticides could lead to ‘pollination deficit,’ EU report says

Ontario’s neonic limits tabled for public comment

Ont. ag minister to review GFO proposal on bee health, neonics

Ontario’s curbs on neonics may protect bees but diminish crops

Ontario proposes deep cuts to farmers’ neonic use by 2017

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