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- New Studies Show Atrazine Supports 38,000 to 85,000 U.S. Jobs - January 11, 2012
Don Coursey, PhD Ameritech Professor of Public Policy Harris School – University of Chicago Recent research by a team of professors has again shown atrazine’s key role in U.S. agriculture. In light of their five new studies – and the 2010 pr...
- Comments submitted to the EPA Docket on Proposed Atrazine Ban - November 15, 2011
The deadline has passed for submitting comments to EPA on a "Save the Frogs!" petition to ban atrazine. EPA had posted the petition for public comment, consistent with its goal to be open and transparent in scientific and regulatory processes. However,...
- Expert Panel: Atrazine's Economic, Environmental Benefits Up to $4.8 Billion Annually - November 10, 2011
Increased yields, decreased producer costs and environmental benefits from atrazine and other triazine herbicides was estimated to be up to $4.8 billion per year, according to studies released by a panel of experts in Kansas City on November 9.
- Responding to Claims that Frogs Are Cool, EPA Seeks Comments on Petition to Ban Atrazine - September 16, 2011
In early May, ten U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers sat down with Kerry Kriger the founder of Save the Frogs. He showed them a petition to ban atrazine and an 82-slide presentation, made up mostly of excellent photographs of frogs. T...
- Researchers find no link between atrazine use and cancer overall among pesticide applicators - May 31, 2011
Relying on data from the Agricultural Health Study, federal government researchers have found no association between atrazine use and cancer overall among pesticide applicators. Read more here.
- New Study Finds Urban Pollution, Not Atrazine to Blame for Frog Abnormalities - February 23, 2011
A Yale University study that contradicts what many anti-atrazine activists have been saying for years. Atrazine is not to blame for frog abnormalities. Read more here.
- Rep. Frank Lucas: American agriculture is under attack - February 14, 2011
Rep. Frank Lucas spoke on the impact of regulation on agriculture, including the re-re-evaluation of atrazine. Read the full text of his statement.
- MN: No change in rules for herbicide atrazine - November 24, 2010
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that existing rules for the weed-killer atrazine are adequate to protect the environment and public health. Read more here.
- Daily Californian Article on Tyrone Hayes Raises Questions on Frogs, Fibs and Scientific Method - November 17, 2010
Berkeley anti-atrazine research Tyrone Hayes was featured in today’s issue of The Daily Californian, the independent newspaper of the University of California-Berkeley. The article outlines Hayes’ research that claims atrazine in extremely small amounts, sterilizes and feminizes male frogs.
- State grain group director says atrazine suit subpoenas are intimidation - November 15, 2010
Shortly after Jere White, executive director of the Kansas Corn Growers Association and Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association spoke during the EPA's Atrazine Science Advisory Panel in Washington, D.C. he was served with subpoenas for KCGA, KGSP and for himself as an individual in regard to the state lawsuit on the re-registration of atrazine. Read more here.
- Farm Industry News: Atrazine answers - October 30, 2010
Atrazine may not need to be regulated any differently than it is now. Recent studies continue to reaffirm EPA’s original decision in 2006 to reregister atrazine, says Tim Pastoor, principal scientist, Syngenta. Pastoor spoke after a Scientific Adviso...
- World Health Organization Shows Safety of Atrazine with New Standard - October 5, 2010
A recently released World Health Organization (WHO) document has recommended a drinking water standard of 100 parts per billion, up from the previous WHO standard of two parts per billion. The atrazine drinking water standard enforced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is three parts per billion. Jere White, Triazine Network chairman and executive director of the Kansas grain sorghum and corn growers associations, said the recent World Health Organization’s recommendation reaffirms the safety of atrazine.
- Kansas Corn, Grain Sorghum Heard at Senate Ag Hearing on EPA and Agriculture - September 24, 2010
EPA’s handling of atrazine regulation was one of the topics at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Thursday. At an oversight hearing on EPA and agriculture Thursday, the Senate Agriculture Committee heard from the Jere White, executive director of the Kansas Corn Growers Association and Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association.
- Lawyers Aim to Harass, Intimidate Growers in Atrazine Issue - September 16, 2010
Sometimes, individuals and groups decide to stand up for something. In the case of many crop producers and the associations that represent them, they have decided to stand up for atrazine. Atrazine is a vital herbicide that is under attack by environmentalists, activist researchers, activist media and slick trial attorneys. These well-financed groups worked together last summer to garner enough attention to spur an unscheduled re-review of atrazine by the Environmental Protection Agency.
- EPA to Convene Scientific Advisory Panel on Atrazine - September 13, 2010
In light of the upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Panel's reevaluation of atrazine, The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) reemphasizes the safety and importance of the herbicide in a new commentary.
- Triazine Network Sends Letter to EPA Fighting for Atrazine - September 8, 2010
Read a letter sent to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson by the Triazine Network. It was co-signed by over 120 organizations and supported by thousands of individual growers.
- Corn Belt would feel the loss of atrazine - September 1, 2010
Read 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.
- Thousands of Growers Stand Up for Atrazine - August 31, 2010
As 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.
- Atrazine: Wise and prudent - August 24, 2010
by 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...
- Atrazine Environmentalist Turns to E-bullying - August 18, 2010
The Washington Times recently published an article on Tyrone Hayes' inappropriate e-mails to Syngenta employees. Read it here.
- The Ag Minute: EPA Strikes at Atrazine - August 17, 2010
The 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 A...
- Atrazine: The Strange Case of Dr. Tyrone Hayes - July 29, 2010
Frog Researcher Attacks Atrazine Maker Through Obscene E-mails Warning to reader: Some of the emails quoted below from Dr. Tyrone Hayes are obscene. Read the rest of this post...
- Prof. Don Coursey and Jere White of Triazine Network discuss new research on Atrazine and jobs - July 9, 2010
Read the full transcript of the Triazine Network press conference with Jere White and Prof. Don L. Coursey.
- Up to 48,000 jobs lost if atrazine is ever banned, new study says - July 7, 2010
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 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.”
Read the full release... - Why Corn is King - July 5, 2010
It 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.
- New Website Offers News and Information on Atrazine by the Farmers Who Have Used it for Generations - June 22, 2010
A group of farmers who raise corn, sorghum and other crops throughout the country have launched a new website, www.AGSense.org, to bring some common sense and straight talk to the debate about atrazine.
- Center for Global Food Issues Calls for Transparency for Environmental Groups Behind Atrazine Campaign - June 18, 2010
Center for Global Food Issues unveils its new blog entry, The Big Money Behind the Environmental Scare Movement –the attack on atrazine replays the alar scare, which calls for transparency into environmental activists’ work to demonize and ban the herbicide atrazine.
- Health Scientist Addresses Unfounded Cancer Claims Related to Atrazine - June 16, 2010
Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), posted a great entry on ACSH’s Health Facts and Fears blog on the growing attempts by activist groups to convince the EPA to ban atrazine due to cancer claims and other health concerns.
- Atrazine: What is the safety limit? - June 11, 2010
Read a blog post from the Nebraska Corn Kernels blog on the safety of atrazine and how much would be needed to be found in water to cause problems.
- Sound science on trial - June 4, 2010
Activist organizations like the National Resources Defense Council are mounting a sophisticated and lavishly funded campaign to discredit sound science and the EPA by alleging that past studies that found these technologies safe to use were somehow “tainted” by corporate involvement.
- Aussies Rap Frog Rapper--Tyrone Hayes’ Amphibian Studies Dismissed by Australian Government - June 4, 2010
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) said “atrazine is unlikely to have an adverse impact on frogs at existing levels of exposure” and pointed out their conclusions were consistent with findings by EPA. (Hayes promotes his atrazine rap online and has an anti-atrazine website)
- Murphy: Five Minutes With The Atrazine Advocate - June 2, 2010
Can agriculture ever win a fight against anti-industry activists with an agenda? If growers had more leaders like Jere White, the Executive Director of the Kansas Corn Growers Association, the answer would be, yes we can.
- Stop The Fearmongering Over Cancer - June 2, 2010
The cancer war is back! No, not the war against cancer that President Nixon declared back in 1971. That one never went away. What's back is the war about cancer--what causes it and what we should do about it.
- Rural Legends: Fiction Not Facts - June 2, 2010
The current EPA review of Atrazine is taking on the look of a rural legend in the making. Despite years of testing and literally thousands of scientific studies, environmental radicals continue to accuse the popular farm chemical of being a danger.
- Iowa Senate Urges EPA to Use Science, Not Politics, in Atrazine Re-Review - June 1, 2010
A letter dated May 11, 2010 was sent by Iowa Senate leadership to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. The letter is in regards to the agency’s decision to once again review atrazine.
- Atrazine Controversy Swirls - May 26, 2010
An independent Scientific Advisory Panel set up by EPA has reviewed the findings and said there is not enough data to determine if atrazine affects amphibian development.
- Atrazine: Sound Science Is In The Eye of The Beholder - May 18, 2010
Even when the science is fair and balanced, the outcome may not reflect the conclusions reached by the researchers. Take, for example, the question of Atrazine.
- Atrazine: Safe, Needed and Effective - May 18, 2010
For more than 50 years atrazine has been a primary crop protector for 60 percent of corn, 75 percent of sorghum and 90 percent of sugarcane produced in the United States.
- Atrazine: 'Son of Alar': The New Pesticide Scare Campaign - May 18, 2010
In 1989, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a major environmental group, launched a nationwide panic over the presence on apples of alar, a chemical growth agent.
- Let's hope atrazine lawsuits go away faster than asbestos - May 4, 2010
The lawsuits say runoff makes drinking water unsafe.... It [atrazine] has been approved for use in the United States for over 50 years.... In other words, there is no safety issue.
- EPA’s Ag Plate Fills -From Atrazine to Nutrient Runoff, Agency Has Ag Issues in Sights - May 4, 2010
COLUMBIA, Mo. (DTN) — Agriculture is becoming a common subject in the halls of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Activists Seek To Derail Agriculture - May 4, 2010
Banning a widely used herbicide would set a dangerous precedent.
- Farmers Speak Out at the EPA: Atrazine is Safe, Effective, and Critical to Our Bottom Line - May 4, 2010
“When is enough enough?” ...atrazine has been more extensively studied than any other crop protection product and has continually been awarded a clean bill of health...
- Minnesota Special Registration Review of Atrazine Found Current Regulations are Protective - May 4, 2010
• State review finds atrazine regulations protect human health and the environment in Minnesota • Detections of atrazine in public water supply systems in Minnesota are rare • University of Minnesota scientists say there are no direct replacements for atrazine currently registered for use
- Atrazine Saves the Soil - May 4, 2010
• Atrazine improves the environment through use in conservation tillage • Governments around the world approve atrazine for use
