Atrazine [6-chloro-N-ethyl-N′-(1-methylethyl)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine] provides effective weed control during big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) ...

Overall pesticide use is declining but the amount of atrazine on corn fields is increasing. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont’s overall pesticide use in 2018 was the lowest it’s been this decade ...

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 ...

Corn and sorghum growers are making the case that newly proposed restrictions on atrazine use will lead to their practicing less conservation tillage, resulting in reduced carbon sequestration at a ...

As Wisconsin farmers head into the fields this spring, agriculture officials are reminding them of the restrictions on using atrazine, a corn herbicide that is contained in nearly 100 products.

(Beyond Pesticides, March 8, 2013) Sugarcane and pineapple production in Hawaii is threatening aquatic life as years of atrazine applications, a pesticide regularly used for corn production too, has ...

Gov. Laura Kelly is now backing farmers in a fight over a weed killer polluting Kansas waters, with her letter to the Environmental Protection Agency coming after political rival Derek Schmidt ...