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Chemical Tool Box Topped Up For Potato Growers

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Manitoba potato growers have a handful of new crop protection products in their arsenal for the 2009 season, including new fungicides, seed treatments, herbicides and insecticides. Some are all new for this season while others were registered late last season and saw limited use in the 2008 campaign. The fungicide Revus, from Syngenta, was registered
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Ontario law threatens farm pesticides

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Ontario’s “arbitrary” ban on ‘cosmetic’ pesti -cides threatens their use in agriculture and that’s why CropLife Canada is fighting back. “This is about more than just dandelions,” CropLife president Lorne Hepworth warned the 350 people attending CropLife’s annual meeting here Dec. 3. “It’s about agriculture and the not-so-subtle impact this has on the impressions Canadians
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Higher rates of breast cancer among Ontario farm women

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“You can’t just look at the dose, you must also look at the timing of exposure.” – Vincent Cogliano When researchers began collecting the occupational histories of cancer patients in Essex County, Ontar io during the mid-1990s they hypothesized they would find higher rates of the disease among male industrialized workers. What they found shocked
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Dow seeks arbitration in pesticide bans

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A pesticide manufacturer has pushed back against the provincial bans on so-called cosmetic pesticides. Dow AgroSciences has filed a notice with the Canadian government seeking arbitration on the impact of a pesticide ban imposed by Quebec in 2006. That action breached Canada’s obligations under NAFTA, the company says. Through the Chapter 11 investor protector provisions

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