The Biopesticide Industry Alliance (BPIA) celebrated its 15th anniversary in September with a visit to Congress and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) followed by a semi-annual meeting in Washington, DC.
Read MoreView presentations from the BPIA 2015 Fall Meeting here.
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(John Innes Centre) – In the mid-20th century, an American scientist named Harold Henry Flor...
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Driven in part by societal concerns and in part by regulations, the bio-pesticides market, once a...
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(CornellChronicle) – A novel insecticide targets a specific gene in a pest, killing only that bug...
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Soil is crowded with bacteria and fungi. Tens of thousands of different species can inhabit the same space, and for a plant that grows in the midst of that community, it’s important to know the difference between friend and foe.
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(npr) – What if farmers, instead of picking up some agricultural chemicals at their local dealer,...
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Much like the microbes in our gut, the plant microbiome also elicits a low-level immune response in the host plant, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
Read More(Physl.org) – Male moths locate females by navigating along the latter’s pheromone (odor) plume, often flying hundreds of meters to do so. Two strategies are involved to accomplish this: males must find the outer envelope...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AgLineNews) – The Environmental Protection Agency has wrapped up its review of the world’s most widely used herbicide and plans to release a much-anticipated preliminary risk assessment no later than...
Read MorePaired with wireless sensors and cameras, aerosol pheromone pesticides have entered a new era of effectiveness and affordability. There’s definitely something in the air at John Freese’s cherry, apple and pear orchards in...
Read MoreSome growers consider mating disruption more expensive than their conventional insecticide programs, but new formulations have lowered the cost of this technology without reducing effectiveness, reports Joe Grant, University of...
Read MoreFRESNO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aligning the biocontrol industry on a global scale was the goal of the first-ever meeting of the International Biocontrol Federation in Fresno, Calif. March 2-3. The symposium drew 121...
Read MorePresentations Common Objectives of the International Federation of Biocontrol/Biopesticde Associations Rick Melnick, BPIA Board Chairman Global Organic Industry and Regulatory Update Dr. Nate Lewis, Senior Crops and Livestock...
Read MoreAs scientists seek to make crops resilient against disease and the effects of climate change, they are turning to what may seem like an unlikely champion: fungi, according to a story written by ClimateWire. Click here to...
Read More(C&EN) — Insects do billions of dollars’ worth of damage to agricultural products annually, and they can also be the vectors of numerous diseases. A team of researchers led by Yeon Ho Je and Sang Woon Shin of Seoul...
Read MoreA Buckinghamshire farmer has set up a new company with the aim of bringing new biological technology to UK growers in the next five years. According to the UK publication Farmers Weekly, Antony Pearce, who farms just over...
Read MorePeople are increasingly aware of the link between the trillions of microbes that live within our bodies and human health. Studies have found that a healthy population of bacteria, or a microbiome, in a person can prevent food...
Read MoreBedbugs are pesky insects, living in mattresses and coming out at night to bite at your exposed skin. Now, though, scientists may have just created a new technique to combat the global bedbug epidemic, according to Science World...
Read MoreAs consumer demand for sustainably farmed food increases, adoption of bio-pesticides is trending upward as well. According to the Bio-pesticide Industry Alliance (BPIA), this is one of several factors contributing to the...
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