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Corn Belt would feel the loss of atrazine
September 1st, 2010Read commentary from Prof. Micheal D. K. Owen, a professor of agronomy at Iowa State University in response to an opinion piece claiming an atrazine ban would not have negative consequences.
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Thousands of Growers Stand Up for Atrazine
August 31st, 2010As producers gather amid Iowa corn fields at this week’s Farm Progress Show, thousands of them are also standing up for atrazine by signing an online petition at www.AGSense.org that will be sent to U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, voicing growers’ concerns about her agency’s over-reaching in its renewed review of atrazine.
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Atrazine Environmentalist Turns to E-bullying
August 18th, 2010The Washington Times recently published an article on Tyrone Hayes’ inappropriate e-mails to Syngenta employees. Read it here.
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Why Profane Emails from Atrazine Scientist Tyrone Hayes Are Important
Syngenta, the primary maker of atrazine, recently filed a complaint with UC-Berkeley, citing years of profane and threatening emails from its anti-atrazine researcher Tyrone Hayes. Read Sue Schulte’s blog post on this issue.
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Toxic Environmental Regulations Poison the Job Market
The media continue to report dismal economic news, raising the specter that our teetering economy may fall back into a “double-dip recession.” Continuing high unemployment is the biggest worry for most Americans. The percentage of working-age people in the labor force last month fell to 64.7 percent—the lowest figure in a quarter century.
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Purdue says atrazine is simple, effective, inexpensive
Simple, effective and inexpensive. These are words used to describe atrazine in a Purdue University column published this week. Purdue weed scientist Bill Johnson offered some common sense advice to farmers who use atrazine or any herbicide.
Farming has a small profit margin and growers strive to control weeds and pests while maintaining profitability. Atrazine is a basic herbicide that controls broadleaf and grassy weeds, helping growers improve yields and keep their fields healthy. Johnson points out that atrazine saves farmers about $2 billion because of cost savings and yield increases. He also encourages growers to follow label directions and use best management practices to ensure that atrazine and other farm chemicals stay on the field.
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EPA Gives Stakeholders Little Time for Thoughtful Responses to Atrazine Panel Questions
August 30th, 2010By Jere White, Executive Director
Kansas Corn Growers Association and Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association
Monday, August 30, 2010—Some folks will burn the midnight oil trying to write written responses to EPA’s charge questions for the agency’s September atrazine science advisory panel. The questions were released Friday and comments are due Tuesday.
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Atrazine: Wise and prudent
August 24th, 2010by John Schlageck
Are extremists in the environmental movement really concerned about the welfare of our animals, the quality of our water and conserving our planet or are they trying to change the world to fit their own image?
Listening to their agendas and following their actions, there is little doubt such extremists are hell-bent on eliminating [Continue Reading ...] -
The Ag Minute: EPA Strikes at Atrazine
August 17th, 2010The Ag Minute: EPA Strikes at Crop Protection Tool for Farmers
By Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) – 08/17/10 04:14 PM ET
WASHINGTON – This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, discusses how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated an unprecedented re-review of a critically important pesticide, which threatens its continued availability to [Continue Reading ...] -
Atrazine: The Strange Case of Dr. Tyrone Hayes
July 29th, 2010Frog Researcher Attacks Atrazine Maker Through Obscene E-mails
Warning to reader: Some of the emails quoted below from Dr. Tyrone Hayes are obscene.
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Prof. Don Coursey and Jere White of Triazine Network discuss new research on Atrazine and jobs
July 9th, 2010Read the full transcript of the Triazine Network press conference with Jere White and Prof. Don L. Coursey.
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Up to 48,000 jobs lost if atrazine is ever banned, new study says
July 7th, 2010Banning 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 L. Coursey, Ph.D.
Coursey estimates atrazine’s annual production value to corn alone to be between $2.3 billion and $5 billion. Atrazine’s additional value to sorghum, sugar cane and other uses increases these totals.
“The economic data on atrazine are very clear. As a first-order estimate, banning atrazine will erase between 21,000 and 48,000 jobs related to or dependant on corn production, with additional job losses coming from both sugar cane and sorghum production losses,” Coursey said. “The range is wide because we have never before banned a product on which so many depend and for which suitable replacements have a wide variety of prices and application regimes.”
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Why Corn is King
July 5th, 2010It stands, tall and green, rustling in the warm July winds across hundreds of miles of flat, fertile, Midwestern soil. It is the economic lifeblood of thousands of farm families and a major source of employment for millions of people. It is corn, an important part of our nation’s heritage and a key to our nation’s future.
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