08/21/2017
Fungicide and insecticide treated seeds are intended to protect the crop from soil pathogens and insect pests. Increasingly, however, scientists are finding that these seed treatments, particularly the neonicotinoid insecticide component of the treatments, also are affecting other organisms that live in and around agricultural fields, including soil microfauna are beneficial to agriculture.
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A researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has received a $474,679 grant to determine if pesticide seed treatments inadvertently protect w**d seeds in the soil from being attacked by naturally occurring invertebrate and fungal species. Shown here: Dif...