{"id":682908,"date":"2021-03-03T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682908"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:10:22","slug":"ghosts-of-past-pesticide-use-can-haunt-organic-farms-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682908","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of past pesticide use can haunt organic farms for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the use of pesticides in agriculture is increasing, some farms have transitioned to organic practices and avoid applying them. But it&#8217;s uncertain whether chemicals applied to land decades ago can continue to influence the soil&#8217;s health after switching to organic management. Now, researchers reporting in ACS&#8217; Environmental Science &amp; Technology have identified pesticide residues at 100 Swiss farms, including all the organic fields studied, with beneficial soil microbes&#8217; abundance negatively impacted by their occurrence.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-ghosts-pesticide-farms-decades.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ghosts of past pesticide use can haunt organic farms for decades<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the use of pesticides in agriculture is increasing, some farms have transitioned to organic practices and avoid applying them. But it&#8217;s uncertain whether chemicals applied to land decades ago&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}