Soil grown using pesticides, herbicides, etc, literally DIES and becomes quite useless after repeated applications.
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When it comes to herbicides, there is a more substantive difference between chemical and organic farming.
This means no artificial fertilizers, chemical pesticides, herbicides, plant growth regulators or genetically modified organisms.
The factory was established in Hauxton in the 1940s and produced pesticides and herbicides.
Farmers are returning to tilling and using older, more toxic herbicides to control weeds.
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The energy inputs required to produce the crops included nitrogen fertiliser, herbicides, diesel and seed production.
Most funding in seed science goes towards genetically modified varieties that are resistant to herbicides.
And herbicide tolerance has made possible a shift to more benign herbicides and to environment-friendly no-till farming.
He points out that it takes natural gas and oil to make and deliver fertilizers and herbicides.
Parents would have the option of keeping their children away from areas where herbicides or pesticides were being applied.
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Bittman errs by persistently lumping data on herbicides (which kill weeds) with pesticides (which kill insects and other pests).
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Roundup is not as toxic to animals or people as other herbicides, and the crops have allowed farmers to do less tilling.
Rather, farmers choose them because they are easier to manage, demand less weeding and take lower-cost, less toxic herbicides.
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Louis, attributed the drop to price decreases for Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides, which were not offset by volume growth.
One of the world's most commonly used herbicides, atrazine, poses a serious threat to frogs and other amphibians, American scientists claim.
For decades plant biologists have used brute-force methods of genetic engineering to produce biotech seeds that kill bugs and withstand herbicides.
Roughly 80% of the crop there has been genetically modified to resist one of three different herbicides used to kill weeds.
During the hottest summer months, Americans sprinkle with abandon, pouring water on top of a potent mix of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizer.
It specializes in so-called nonrow agricultural chemicals--herbicides and pesticides for fruit and nut trees instead of crops like corn grown in rows.
Its network of deep roots, which make up more than half of the plant's biomass, makes it difficult to control with herbicides.
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For one thing, the phenomenon of resistance to herbicides, antibiotics, pesticides and chemotherapeutic drugs is well-known and a largely unavoidable concomitant of evolutionary pressure.
But in an irony Albaugh can appreciate, Monsanto has suggested some farmers use other herbicides, including 2, 4-D, in concert with glyphosate to combat resistance.
Critics of Plan Colombia worry too about the aerial spraying of herbicides, the method used by the Colombian police to try and eradicate coca.
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Resistant to pests, herbicides or both, the result is still cotton.
Second, although the amount (weight) of herbicides applied has increased in recent years, that parameter is a poor measure of impacts on human health or the natural environment.
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In February Nufarm, an Australian agrochemical maker, won approval for its acquisition of AH Marks, one of Britain's oldest chemical companies, which has a valuable portfolio of herbicides.
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These threats include insects, disease organisms, herbicides and environmental stresses.
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Roundup Ready herbicides and nitrogen fertilizers replaced manure and compost.
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