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Does glyphosate or other common herbicides endanger beneficial earthworms? New study finds ‘low risk’, with Roundup among the safest

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Agrochemicals are an important component of agricultural production systems. There are increasing concerns about the effect of agrochemicals on soil ...
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Have GMO crops cut herbicide use? A tale of two conflicting studies

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We have planted millions of acres of genetically-engineered (GE) crops, a vast majority of which are resistant to herbicides. In ...
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Glyphosate and cancer—revisited

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I’ve already written about this topic back in 2015. Much of the information below is from that original blog post, ...
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‘The taste of pesticides in wines’: Dissecting Gilles-Eric Seralini’s latest ethically and scientifically questionable study

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The notorious Gilles-Eric Seralini published a paper recently called “The Taste of Pesticides in Wines.” As a part of the ...
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Herbicide-resistant ‘super weeds’? Don’t blame GMO crops, study says

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Andrew Kniss is a professor of weed science at the University of Wyoming Genetically engineered (GE) herbicide-resistant crops have been ...
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Biodiversity on the farm: It’s more complicated than you might think

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[Editor's note: William Price is a statistician in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Idaho ...
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Herbicide use has increased more for non-GMO crops than genetically engineered varieties

[Editor's note: Andrew Kniss is a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Wyoming.] Herbicide use is ...
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Monoculture: Is it really the problem ‘intensive agriculture’ critics make it out to be?

Food and Farm Discussion Lab | 
Editor's note: The author of this piece is Andrew Kniss, associate professor of weed biology & ecology at the University of Wyoming ...
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Are GMO crops improving children’s IQ?

WeedControlFreaks | 
[Danny Hakim's October 29th article in the New York Times appears to suggest] that planting GMO crops has 1) lead to ...
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Strawmen and selective statistics: Did The New York Times botch its critique of GMO crops?

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An opinion piece maintaining that the current generation of GMO crops has under delivered in yield and led to increased ...
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Weed scientist—Herbicide use increasing most rapidly in non-GE crops not paired with glyphosate

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[Editor's note: Dr. Andrew Kniss is a weed scientist at the University of Wyoming. He co-authors the Weed Control Freaks ...
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How should we evaluate impact of substituting glyphosate for more toxic herbicides?

Weed Control Freaks | 
A new paper was just published in the journal Science Advances that analyzes pesticide use data for farmers in the U.S. . .  The authors['s]  ...

Comparing conventional vs. organic: Don’t judge sustainability by yield alone

Weed Control Freaks | 
[T]wo colleagues and I published a paper in PLOS ONE titled “Commercial crop yields reveal strengths and weaknesses for organic ...

Organic weed control methods, not just synthetic pesticides, can kill frogs in farm fields

Weed Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Just saw a link ...
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Market shift to non-GMO sugar loss for environment

Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Dan Charles ...
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Downside trade-offs of reducing glyphosate use

Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some of the costs of ...

Farmers need more options to conquer herbicide resistant weeds

Weed Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There are two things ...

‘Natural’ pesticides not as common as people believe

Weed Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Currently, the FDA is struggling ...

Herbicide mixtures effective, but non-herbicide solutions necessary to combat evolution of weed resistance

Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In my last post, I ...

How to combat herbicide resistance: Use more herbicide

Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A while ago, I wrote ...

How the ‘agroecology’ movement misrepresents ‘agroecology’ science

Control Freaks | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The word "agroecology" is ...

Landrigan and Benbrook get it wrong on GMOs in New England Journal of Medicine

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In an opinion piece was ...
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Despite anti-GMO claims, herbicide use is not rising

USDA-NASS recently published the most recent corn herbicide use data (from 2014). I’ve been looking through the data, because, well, free ...
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Chipotle’s non GMO policy will likely increase pesticide use and create more ‘superweeds’

WeedControlFreaks | 
A couple weeks ago, Chipotle announced they were removing genetically engineered crops (called GMOs) from their menu. Kind of. Dan ...

Let’s not exaggerate concerns about organic farming

Control Freaks | 
Many people in my ‘tribe’ (people who support appropriate use of GMOs and pesticides in agriculture), get really upset when ...

Deep dive analysis of glyphosate exposure-cancer link research

Control Freaks | 
A little over a week ago, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that glyphosate would be added ...

Using the term ‘superweed’ in GMO debate is misleading

Control Freaks | 
Superweeds have been in been in the news a lot over the last few months. Most of the recent coverage ...
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Deconstructing Dr. Oz misrepresentations on pesticide exposure danger

WeedControlFreaks | 
Andrew Kniss, a scientist with an expertise in pesticides and weed control, addressed a segment on the Dr. Oz show in ...
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