Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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Fungicide

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Pesticides which are used to control, deter, or destroy fungi.

Molds, mildews, yeasts, mushrooms, and puffballs, a group of organisms lacking in chlorophyll (i.e. are not photosynthetic) and which are usually non-mobile, filamentous, and multicellular. Some grow ...

Furrow irrigation

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Irrigation method in which water travels through the field by means of small channels between each groups of rows.

Future liability

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Refers to potentially responsible parties' obligations to pay for additional response activities beyond those specified in the Record of Decision or Consent Decree.

Game fish

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Species like trout, salmon, or bass, caught for sport. Many of them show more sensitivity to environmental change than "rough" fish.

Gully erosion

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Severe erosion in which trenches are cut to a depth greater than 30 centimetres (a foot). Generally, ditches deep enough to cross with farm equipment are considered gullies.