Makhteshim officials said Cotoron, whose active ingredient is an older chemical called Fluometuron, is more of a strategic buy than a big revenue generator. arm of one of the world's biggest pesticide producers is adding to its portfolio with the acquisition of a DuPont herbicide used in Southern cotton production. Makhteshim sells generic pesticides, insecticides, fungicides and other crop-protection chemicals. Glyphosate products are dominant in the agricultural herbicide market, but are...

To suspend or fire a public figure for saying what they really think is to ensure watered-down opinions that are as useless as a small December wind whining for attention. There is rarely a day that passes in my free-woman life that somewhere, some man makes some derogatory remark like "them f--king women libbers. I line my birdcage with the mail or work it into the fertilizer for my rose bushes - and then I stand up and loudly defend any man or woman's right to say what they please about...

Webworms are about to strike trees for the third time this year, and this stage can be the most damaging because the caterpillars can defoliate the tree. Synthetic chemicals also degrade when exposed to environmental conditions, but usually remain in the environment longer than naturally-derived chemicals. Infestations are rarely fatal but, by occurring repeatedly, can stress trees and make them susceptible to drought, disease or other insect pests. Synthetic chemicals often mimic...

It requires a lot of fertilizer, and allows a lot of fertilizer to run off with rainwater. But when ethanol is made from corn, it substitutes one set of problems the toll that growing and processing corn takes on the environment for another. Even without that, agriculture experts expect farmers in Virginia and the five other states that feed into the bay to plant half a million more acres of corn, as they respond to higher prices fueled by ethanol demand. There are no easy answers, no...

Market Watch Online email. MURTAUGH, Idaho - By the time Bettencourt Dairy Farm s new Murtaugh facility is ready to milk the first half of its planned 10,000 cows, an anaerobic digester should be ready to begin converting effluent into power, organic fertilizer and digested solids for animal bedding. MURTAUGH, Idaho - By the time Bettencourt Dairy Farm s new Murtaugh facility is ready to milk the first half of its planned 10,000 cows, an anaerobic digester should be ready to begin...