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The list of prohibited crop protection products looks set to shrink in the new crop year.
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Manipulator OK’d for 2018 crop, progress on quinclorac

The list of products exporters don’t want farmers using on their crops is being revised

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The list of chemicals Canadian farmers shouldn’t apply to their crops because they put markets at risk is expected to be shorter this growing season. Manipulator (chlormequat chloride), a plant growth regulator, has received a maximum residue limit (MRL) in the United States and an international MRL is expected to be set in July for
Bees and other beneficial insects could some day benefit from new pyrethroid pesticide research.
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Spare the bees

New research may make for better-targeted pesticides that do their job but don’t hurt beneficial insects

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Pyrethroid pesticides could be modified with a few molecular tweaks to eliminate pests while preserving beneficial insects like bees. Those are the findings of researchers at Michigan State University’s entomology department in a study featured in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. These pesticides target a protein known as the
New research may eventually see plants created that can shake off insect damage on their own.
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Some plants rise to challenge of cutting

Research findings could increase productivity and lower pesticide use eventually

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How would you like a canola plant that just got tougher as flea beetles tried to eat it? Eventually that may become reality if new research from the University of Illinois pans out over time. Researchers there have been studying a group of plants known as “overcompensators,” which react to being clipped by increasing their
Soybeans damaged by dicamba. The Arkansas State Plant Board wants to ban in-crop dicamba use from April 15 to October 31 following almost 1,000 complaints about dicamba drift damaging nearby crops. The proposal needs approval from the Executive Subcommittee of the Arkansas Legislative Council.
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Arkansas moving closer to in-crop dicamba restrictions

Its plant board wants an April 15 to Oct. 31 ban to prevent injury to crops from drift

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Arkansas farmers might not be allowed to apply dicamba in annual crops during the 2018 growing season. A regulatory change prohibiting dicamba applications between April 15 and Oct. 31, was approved by the Arkansas State Plant Board, Arkansas’ Agriculture Department said in a news release Sept. 21. Read more: U.S. EPA gives dicamba ‘restricted use’ label
Quebec researchers say a new treatment can remove atrazine from 
surface water.
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Cleaning up chemicals

Atrazine is the most common weed killer found in Quebec surface water, which prompted the research

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A group of Quebec researchers, at that province’s Institut National De La Recherche Scientifique, say they’ve identified an effective way to remove the pesticide atrazine from surface water. Atrazine, widely used as a weed killer, is known to have harmful effects on aquatic wildlife and presents a risk to human health by altering the action
Sept. 20 was the last day of work for Jeanette Gaultier as Manitoba Agriculture’s weed specialist. KAP hopes the position is filled quickly. Gaultier is BASF’s new senior technical service specialist for Manitoba.
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KAP concerned over unfilled weed specialist position

Jeanette Gaultier, who had the position, left to work for BASF

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Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) wants Manitoba Agriculture’s weed specialist position quickly filled. Jeanette Gaultier, who held the job for the last two years, left the position Sept. 20 to become BASF’s new senior technical service specialist for Manitoba starting Sept. 25. Previously Gaultier, who has a PhD in pesticides and soil science, was Manitoba Agriculture’s
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Health Canada had no herbicide drift complaints from Manitoba

That includes the herbicide dicamba, which has triggered many drift complaints in the U.S.

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Health Canada has not received any herbicide drift complaints in Manitoba this season, including related to dicamba, André Gagnon, a media relations officer serving Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, said in an email Sept. 12. That contrasts sharply with the United States where the University of Missouri says 3.1 million acres
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

EU starts in-depth probe of Bayer-Monsanto deal

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Brussels/Frankfurt | Reuters — The European Commission has started an in-depth investigation of Bayer’s planned US$66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds group Monsanto, saying it was worried about competition in various pesticide and seeds markets. The deal would create the world’s largest integrated pesticides and seeds company, the Commission said, adding this limited the number

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