Herbicides

Banning the agricultural herbicide atrazine would cost between 21,000 and 48,000 jobs from corn production losses alone, according to University of Chicago economist Don…

Monsanto Co. has added an acetochlor premix formulation for pre-emerge and post-emerge use in corn to its corn herbicide portfolio. The product will be…

DuPont Resolve SG herbicide has received federal registration for a label expansion that will enable growers to take advantage of additional crop rotation flexibility…

Cheminova, Inc. has received federal registration for Solida herbicide, a sulfonylurea that is effective against a broad range of tough grasses and weeds in…

Valent U.S.A. Corp., Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., and Ihara Chemical Industry Corp. plan to introduce Fierce — a new residual herbicide expected to be…

Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) has issued a strong appeal to the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to protest the…

Over the weekend, I read a very interesting article in the New York Times. The story focused on the growing number of glyphosate-resistant weeds…

by Jeff Stier, Forbes.com A lawsuit in the "judicial hellhole" that is Madison County, IL, against the makers of the world’s most widely used…