The Environmental Protection Agency has narrowed a rule to protect individuals from pesticide spraying by establishing one 25-foot “Application Exclusion Zone” for all ground spray ...

More than 200 Iowans filed complaints last year about drifting agricultural chemicals as erratic weather in late spring and early summer makes it hard for applicators to find time to safely spray.

Mound parent Rob Roy, president of the Ventura County Agricultural Assn., also described the complaint as unusual. He said he had not heard of such an action being taken in at least 20 years.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a major victory for health and environmental groups, California’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a statewide pesticide-spraying program violates the law by failing to study and ...

Pesticides take a significant toll on global health and the environment, the researchers point out. A recent study found that 31% of agricultural soils around the world were at high risk from ...

More than 350,000 pounds of dangerous agricultural pesticides were sprayed on more than 363,000 acres of crops on America’s national wildlife refuges in 2018, a 34% increase over the acreage sprayed ...

Pesticide drift is also a threat from indoor agricultural facilities such as greenhouses; a 2020 study finds that children living near floricultural greenhouses spraying organophosphate and carbamate ...

The chief of Bucks County's mosquito spraying program shared more details this week about why and how they manage these pests ...

Nebraska Extension and Northeast Community College in Norfolk are hosting the third annual Nebraska Agriculture and Spray Drone Conference, Aug. 21-22 at the college. As the largest agriculture ...

Superior Court Judge James Arguelles ordered the Department of Food and Agriculture to suspend all spraying under the Statewide Plant Pest Prevention and Management Program within two months, the ...