Atrazine, propazine and simazine are safe to use according to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. The agency announced its interim decision regarding these herbicides Friday, answering questions for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A popular herbicide is showing up in drinking water supplies, threatening its future use by Indiana farmers. Producers who use weed control products with the active ingredient ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The National Corn Growers Association claims to represent 35,000 dues-paying corn ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has a lot of feedback to sift through — most of it critical — following the end of its comment period Friday on proposed measures designed to reduce the chances of ...

A wide variety of agricultural pesticides is used on farms, including herbicides, crop and livestock insecticides, fungicides, and fumigants (Curwin et al., 2005a). Farmers may be exposed to these ...

MADISON, WI, JANUARY 19, 2011 – Invasive broadleaf weeds can destroy corn crops and fallow fields. Farmers use the chemical atrazine in herbicides to protect their plants. Despite atrazine's ...

WATCH: The full story from this week’s episode of 16×9 – Pesticide Peril? For more than 50 years farmers across North America have been spraying atrazine, a pesticide, on crops, mainly corn, applying ...