Pesticide drift can quietly affect nearby gardens, leaving homeowners unsure of their rights and next steps when chemicals ...

Rich Pedroncelli / AP In a push to better protect farmworkers and communities, federal officials will now more closely weigh in on how pesticides that drift away from farm fields harm people.

Pesticide drift can happen in both residential and agricultural settings and under all types of weather conditions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it is putting ...

PIERRE, S.D. -- The South Dakota Department of Agriculture wants to remind pesticide applicators of drift risk during this spraying season. Applicators should prevent risk of drift to nontarget areas ...

This story was originally published by Investigate Midwest. When the wind shifts and Abbie Frank smells chemicals in the air, she begins her two-minute drill: grab the children and their backpacks and ...

Changes to pesticide registrations will now require human health risk assessments for farm chemicals that go off-target. EPA will more closely consider how people may be harmed by pesticides that ...

Dear EarthTalk: As a member of Joe Public, is it possible to monitor pesticide levels when my neighboring farmer sprays his fields? I have wild bees and am concerned that they are being affected.

MINNEAPOLIS — The cloud of insecticide that drifted from a neighbor’s corn field onto the asparagus on Andrew and Melissa Dunham’s central Iowa farm cast a shadow over their organic vegetable business ...

Agriculture, like the rest of our world, is growing and changing at a pace seldom seen in history. Crops and animals are genetically modified to correlate to each field and each pen of a production ...

Recently, a conversation about pesticide drift took place on Practical Farmers of Iowa’s email discussion list. Linda Wattonville, who farms near Alleman, shared that a crop duster hired to spray a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a petition from farm worker and public health advocates to ban pesticide spraying near schools, hospitals and child care centers. Part of the ...

Pesticides drifting off-target and exposing people to chemicals are “major problems,” according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture, which is seeking to hire 15 more employees for its ...