“Neonic” treatment of soybean seed isn’t worth the cost

The practice of coating soybean seed with neonicotinoid pesticides as a safeguard against insect damage provides “negligible overall benefits to soybean production in most situations,” says an EPA analysis. “Published data indicate that in most cases there is no difference in soybean yield when soybean seed was treated with neonicotinoids versus not receiving any insect control treatment.”… » Read More

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