Pest control advisors play a critical role in both preventing and investigating pesticide spray drift incidents. But their recommendations to applicators and growers can put them in legal jeopardy ...

Georgia study shows drift reduction agents work well with herbicides while meeting new environmental protection requirements ...

Rich Pedroncelli / AP In a push to better protect farmworkers and communities, federal officials will now more closely weigh in on how pesticides that drift away from farm fields harm people.

Pesticide drift can happen in both residential and agricultural settings and under all types of weather conditions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it is putting ...

Changes to pesticide registrations will now require human health risk assessments for farm chemicals that go off-target. EPA will more closely consider how people may be harmed by pesticides that ...

Hands spraying pesticide on a plant near a fence - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock You may prefer a no-chemicals approach to pest management, but your neighbors might not. Sadly, this can leave your ...

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A recent news report on National Public Radio described problems organic gardeners are having with pesticide drift from their neighbors. Pesticide drift is an issue not limited to organic gardener, ...

FARGO, N.D. -- A new report from North Dakota State University describes in detail how temperature inversions work and how they can cause pesticide spray drift and damage. John Enz, professor emeritus ...

DES MOINES — Iowa Farmers Union's top priority this legislative session centers around pesticide spray drift. "This is a big issue for a lot of our horticulture farmers, and it's also an issue for ...