Minnesota's governor has issued an executive action banning the use of neonictinoid pesticides unless the farmer provides evidence of an urgent need to control a pest. How this executive action will actually be enforced is open to question. See the attached article.
http://www.agweek.com/news/minnesota/4103678-minnesota-sets-broadest-us-limits-chemicals-blamed-bee-declines
I'm happy to see a governor taking this action. By the time the USDA is done studying neonics a lot more damage will be done. He's apparently a person with the greater good at heart.
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