Zoe Hollomon
Apr 21, 2022
As Minnesota is one of the states in which PAN does on-the-ground campaign work, we send out regular updates on PAN and partners' work in Minnesota and beyond — from pesticide-related science to opportunities to take action. If you'd like to receive these updates via email, sign up here.
Greetings from the PAN Minnesota team!
Despite incredible community organizing, this past year we’ve seen important initiatives (securing equitable resources for farmers of color, protections for public health and natural ecosystems) struggle to get through the state legislature. In addition... Read More
Pesticide Actio...
Apr 21, 2022
Over the last two decades, neonicotinoid pesticides, or neonics, have swiftly become the most widely used class of insecticides globally. And you’ve heard from PAN and our partners countless times about the dangers these chemicals pose to the wild pollinators and honeybees our food system relies on.
We’ve also shared the complications with regulating neonics. They can be sprayed onto foliage or be applied as a soil drench, but the most common use is to plant seeds that are pre-treated with the pesticide. Seed treatments are exempt from federal regulations that govern other pesticide products... Read More
Willa Childress
Apr 20, 2022
If you’re following federal and local toxics news, you’ve probably heard about PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances) which are found in many manufactured products, from nonstick pans to raincoat material and food containers. The PFAS class of chemicals are associated with higher risk of multiple cancers, reproductive damage, endocrine disruption, and decreased vaccine response.
Like PFOAs, the now-banned chemicals that PFAS have replaced, PFAS and other fluorinated chemicals are associated with extraordinarily long breakdown times — sometimes thousands of years — which... Read More
Pesticide Actio...
Apr 20, 2022
Rob Faux, Iowa farmer and PAN Communications Manager, was recently invited by Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) to provide an update of his 2014 webinar titled Pesticide Drift: Response and Compensation. The new virtual event, titled Pesticide Drift: What to Know, was held on April 5, 2022, and is now available for viewing by the public. While this "farminar" has an Iowa focus, there is plenty of information that can be applied wherever pesticide misapplication is possible. This is the newest in an excellent series of resources pertaining to herbicide drift that can be found on PFI’s website.... Read More
Rob Faux
Apr 01, 2022
We are standing at the gateway to another growing season, and with it comes a whole host of changes in the life of a farmer. When the gate of Spring opens, I find that the time for planning comes to an end and the moment for doing begins in earnest. In the spirit of doing, I want to get right to the content I wanted to share with you this April.
I hope you find information here useful and my wish is that you will also allow yourself time to revisit the wonder and promise that is Spring. Let it renew your purpose to do what you can to help make this world a better place for us all... Read More
Zoe Hollomon
Mar 24, 2022
As Minnesota is one of the states in which PAN does on-the-ground campaign work, we send out regular updates on PAN and partners' work in Minnesota and beyond — from pesticide-related science to opportunities to take action. If you'd like to receive these updates via email, sign up here.
Hello from the PAN Minnesota team!
It was so great to see some of you earlier this month at the 19th Annual Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference. We enjoyed hearing from guest speakers like Winona LaDuke and Elizabeth Hoover, and being in community with each other. We were also there... Read More
Margaret Reeves
Mar 23, 2022
PAN is joining farmworkers and farmworker advocates around the country as they celebrate National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 25 - 31). I would like to invite you to participate by putting the focus on the individuals who plant, cultivate, and harvest our food. Together, we can share and promote the continued work to eliminate a long legacy of injustice in our food and farming systems. Despite decades of effective organizing, farmworkers still face inadequate legal protections with ineffective enforcement for the minimal protection they’ve won. This simply illustrates how... Read More
Asha Sharma
Mar 09, 2022
This is Part II of an exploration of California's failure to include concrete pesticide reductions as a key climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy. Below, you'll find profiles of four farmers across California who are leading the way with innovate ecological pest management strategies. Find Part I here.
Farmers leading the way
In Part I of this blog, I mentioned ecological pest management and agroecology multiple times. But what does ecological pest management actually look like? We spoke to a few farmers who are leading the way with innovative ecological pest... Read More
