Agri-Business
A court in the US state of Georgia has ordered pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Bayer to...
Arable
Tillage farmers in the UK have been left with cultural control as being the primary means of...
A judge in the US state of California has decided to reduce by over a third the punitive damages...
A second trial into Monsanto's Roundup product in the US has found that the herbicide was the cause...
Pharmaceutical giant Bayer - the new owner of Monsanto and the glyphosate weedkiller - has come out...
The Soil Association has called for a limit to be imposed on the use of Roundup in the UK in light of the recent US court case.
A landmark lawsuit in the US linking glyphosate – the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup - to...
Environment
New rules which restrict the conditions around the use of glyphosate in the European Union are to come into effect in two weeks time, after the rules were published in the EU Official Journal.
EU Member States today supported a European Commission proposal to restrict the conditions of use of glyphosate in the EU.
EU
The European Commission has proposed a number of restrictions to the use of glyphosate following its last-minute decision this week to extend its authorisation.
Another vote in Brussels on the future use of glyphosate in the EU has failed to reach a decision with the products current licence set to run out in days.
Ahead of this Friday's vote on glyphosate, the French Minister for the Environment, has said that France will be voting against the continued use of the herbicide.
European Member States have failed to agree on legislation that would allow an extension of the glyphosate license.
EU Member States are currently in talks about re-authorising glyphosate, the most widely-used herbicide in the world, in the EU.
It's moving into the end game for the renewal of one of the most commonly used chemicals on Irish farms Roundup.
A vote was not held today in Brussels on the re-authorisation of glyphosate as the European Commission has Glypohsaid that it would not proceed to voting without a solid qualified majority of Member States.
Glyphosate will be banned in France - whether or not the EU decides this week to renew the authorisation of the chemical, the French Minister for Health, Marisol Touraine has said.
Glyphosate, the chemical used in Monsanto's Roundup, is unlikely to pose carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet, a UN committee has found.
Bayer may buy US-agribusiness giant Monsanto for more than $40 billion, according to the Financial Times
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’s Union (UFU) has called on the European Commission to re-register...
The UFU believes that the loss of glyphosate would greatly increase the time and cost of managing weeds for local councils and gardners as well as farmers.
As debate rages in Europe of the future of the commonly used herbicide 'glyphosate', Agricultural Science Association President, Neil Keane has criticised the tone of the debate thus far.
All 28 Member States of the EU need a common understandable position on glyphosate, the Health Commissioner, Vytenis Andriukaitis has said.
