Their goal: crops that limit the use of pesticides and fertilizers while delivering more food per acre planted.
The retailer admitted to violating environmental regulations after illegally disposing of fertiliser, pesticides and bleach.
He now works for a nonprofit, educating farmworkers about pesticides, heat rules and workers' rights.
Research suggests that neonicotinoid pesticides have significant adverse affects on the survival rate of bees.
Soil grown using pesticides, herbicides, etc, literally DIES and becomes quite useless after repeated applications.
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At first Kuan-Shu instructed farmers about green cultivation and the dangers of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
You really, you know, don't use pesticides, you know, you're - you know, very little watering.
Now researchers are asking whether pesticides are also playing a role in their decline.
Children, because of their smaller bodies and developing systems, are more vulnerable to pesticides than adults.
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That kind of danger, says Moses, is reason enough to remove these pesticides from schools.
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The Conservatives lost their attempt to limit the extent of a ban on pesticides.
Substitutes could be far cheaper than ears of corn--they require less attention, water, fertilizer and pesticides.
This means no artificial fertilizers, chemical pesticides, herbicides, plant growth regulators or genetically modified organisms.
Dr Whitehorn's paper does not propose a mechanism by which pesticides do their damage.
In 2005, shoppers were worried about pesticides and paying high prices for organic apples.
The factory was established in Hauxton in the 1940s and produced pesticides and herbicides.
Clearly, there are other pesticides at work, and finding what they are is the next task.
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Which is a good thing, because modern systemic pesticides have made them highly toxic.
There are also challenges from bee diseases, although he believes pesticides are not a major issue in the city.
The case they build to link autism and pesticides is not a compelling one.
Aside from organic sulfur and copper mixes, they use no chemical sprays, no artificial fertilizers or pesticides.
When tested on less than 10 acres, non-engineered bacteria and chemical pesticides are completely exempt from regulation.
Conservation bodies welcomed the plan but said ministers should press for powers to ban pesticides from Westminster.
Although pesticides are not a cause of foodborne illness, produce can be a source of food poisoning.
Larger acreages make it cost-effective to spray pesticides by helicopter, for example (if your neighbors don't object).
Many devotees of organic foods purchase them in order to avoid exposure to harmful levels of pesticides.
Other studies that are part of the same project are looking for flame retardants and pesticides, for example.
Farmers, suddenly paid according to what they produce, are slathering their crops in pesticides to increase their yields.
The backpack is designed to measure ambient toxics spewed by vehicles, pesticides, and chemicals from common household products.
Another of their lame hobby horses, which they trot out regularly, is the supposed danger of pesticides on produce.
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