Tillage farmers in the UK have been left with cultural control as being the primary means of tackling blackgrass infestations...
March 23, 2022
Bayer is set to agree to a settlement in the long-running legal battle concerning its glyphosate-based weed killer brand Roundup. A...
June 24, 2020
A judge in the US state of California has decided to reduce by over a third the punitive damages levied...
July 16, 2019
A California jury has awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer...
May 14, 2019
There is a need to differentiate between “responsible and irresponsible” use of the herbicide glyphosate, according to Minister of State...
May 10, 2019
A second trial into Monsanto’s Roundup product in the US has found that the herbicide was the cause of a...
March 20, 2019
French authorities have banned the sale, distribution and use of a Roundup product following a court decision last week. The...
January 21, 2019
Kerry County Council is apparently investigating the controversial weedkiller Roundup and its uses, and will examine possible alternatives for the...
August 27, 2018
Pharmaceutical giant Bayer – the new owner of Monsanto and the glyphosate weedkiller – has come out swinging following the...
August 24, 2018
A landmark lawsuit in the US linking glyphosate – the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup – to cancer has led to...
August 13, 2018
Farmers throughout Europe will have to wait a little longer for a decision on the re-authorisation of glyphosate. A vote...
April 27, 2017
New rules which restrict the conditions around the use of glyphosate in the European Union are to come into effect in...
August 8, 2016
EU Member States today supported a European Commission proposal to restrict the conditions of use of glyphosate in the EU....
July 11, 2016
The European Commission has proposed a number of restrictions to the use of glyphosate following its last-minute decision this week to...
June 30, 2016
Another vote in Brussels on the future use of glyphosate in the EU has failed to reach a decision, with...
June 24, 2016
Ahead of this Friday’s vote on glyphosate, the French Minister for the Environment, Segolene Royal has said that France will...
June 23, 2016
European Member States have failed to agree on legislation that would allow an extension of the glyphosate license. Today’s Standing...
June 6, 2016
Glyphosate is an active substance used for the production of pesticides, which has been authorised in the EU since 2002...
June 5, 2016
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