Pesticide use on farms safer than ever

It is unfortunate that The University of Sydney chose to publicise the release of an otherwise interesting model with unscientific, inflammatory and misleading language surrounding the use of pesticides in modern agricultural production. The suggestion that modern, best-practice farming methods will permanently pollute two-thirds of farmland is both preposterous and unsupported by real-world scientific assessment. […]

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