nursery plant News
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Helping plant nurseries reduce runoff
You may have heard how excess nutrients, such as phosphorus, can run off of crop fields. This can cause harm when the nutrients end up in rivers and lakes. However, there are other sources of excess nutrients you might not think of, such as the pots nursery plants come in. Before being shipped to farmers and garden centers, many tree crops and ornamental plants are grown in pots at nurseries. ...
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AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide Now Approved for Use in Food and Cannabis Production in Canada
Under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, BioSafe Systems’ AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide has been approved for foliar spray treatment around food crops and cannabis in Canada. The approved label reads: AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide can now be used around berries, grapes, orchards, carrots, ginseng, onions, potatoes, hops, cannabis, nursery crops (field and container-grown ...
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California’s Prop 65 and Public Health Concerns from Maneb
In 1986, California voters approved an initiative to address increasing concerns about exposure to toxic chemicals. That initiative, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is better known by its original name of Proposition 65. Proposition 65 requires businesses to notify Californians about significant amounts of chemicals in the products they purchase, in their homes or ...
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