DPR Director Julie Henderson at the 2022 Almond Conference. (photo: Brad Hooker) The California Department of Pesticide Regulation is set to release a roadmap for transitioning California agriculture ...

YAKIMA – Apple growers battle a legion of pests in their orchards – leafrollers, grape mealybugs, the woolly apple aphid, to name just a few – and employ any number of tactics to protect their crops.

The principles behind indoor and outdoor pest management are the same. Focus must be placed not simply on killing pests (or weeds), but eliminating the conditions that brought them about in the first ...

The global food system relies heavily on pesticides to protect crops from pests, diseases, and weeds. But this dependence comes at a cost: declining biodiversity, soil degradation, collapsing insect ...

A group backing legal immunity for pesticide manufacturers in Idaho failed to see its sponsored legislation passed in 2025 despite spending more on lobbying than any other group in the state. As of ...

If the glassy-winged sharpshooter infests the county, residents opposed to pesticide spraying will likely have the initial option of using nontoxic methods to rid their yards of the insect.But there's ...

The microbes of the world battle one another for domination, and some bacteria produce powerful molecules that can work against other microbes. Researchers have now discovered that some Pseudomonas ...

One of the biggest objections to a reduction in pesticide use by farmers is the belief that it will result in lower crop yields. In fact, just recently, the EU abandoned a bill to reduce pesticide use ...

ATTAPULGUS, Ga. (AP) -- In small plots of Southern peas, growing in the sandy soils near Georgia's southwest corner, horticulturists Darby Granberry and Juan Carlos Diaz-Perez are evaluating the ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Research into alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides, found to be toxic to bees, is unlikely to deliver a solution capable of fully protecting sugar beet crops for five years, a ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Athanus Nzau waters crops in his farm, located Mutalia area of Matungulu Sub County and ...