Tillage
Glyphosate: 'The critical issue is the vote by the member states'
Following yesterday’s news that the European Parliament voted to back a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides by December 2022, member...
Tillage
Following yesterday’s news that the European Parliament voted to back a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides by December 2022, member...
Other
The European Parliament’s vote to ban glyphosate indicates that political support is moving towards “increased restrictions”, MEP Mairead McGuinness has...
Other
Environment committee MEPs have backed a full ban on glyphosate, one of the world’s most widely used weedkillers, at a sitting...
Tillage
In Brussels this week, the EU is set to vote on the controversial proposal to relicense glyphosate for another 10-year...
Tillage
The European debate on glyphosate has led one Irish MEP to question what policy should be based on, if policymakers...
Environment
MEP Mairead McGuinness has warned the Mercosur trade deal will pose “a huge cost to rural Europe” as “uproar” over...
Tillage
France is set to vote against renewing the European licence for weedkiller glyphosate, according to recent reports from Reuters. An official...
Agri-Business
The majority of EU member states will need to get behind the re-approval of glyphosate before the European Commission decides...
Tillage
Concerns over the use of certain plant protection products are among a range of issues set to affect the Irish...
Environment
A UK farm leader has reportedly criticised an MEP’s anti-glyphosate stance, following an incident last year when she brought a...
Tillage
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has welcomed the European Commission’s plan to re-authorise glyphosate for ten years. The European Commission...
Tillage
Farmers throughout Europe will have to wait a little longer for a decision on the re-authorisation of glyphosate. A vote...
Tillage
The campaign group Uplift is asking Irish people to join the ongoing global efforts to ban glyphosate. The pressure group...
Opinion
By John McHugh, dairy farmer, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Increasingly we witness agricultural leaders antagonistically pitted against environmental leaders, taunting each...
Environment
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) maintains that the weed killer glyphosate will not be classified as a carcinogenic. But the...
Tillage
Changes to the glyphosate spraying regulations, coming into effect this year, will have little or no effect on oilseed rape...
Agri Politics
The European Commission has decided to register a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) inviting the Commission “to propose to Member States...
Environment
New restrictions around the conditions regarding the use of glyphosate, the main chemical ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, come into force...