September/October 2025

Teens demonstrate pesticide knowledge at Youth Crop Scouting Competition

August 22, 2025

The University of Illinois recently hosted the Youth Crop Scouting Competition at the Urbana-Champaign South Farm. Student teams of two to five high-school-aged youth with an adult coach rotated through 10 outdoor stations to test their hands-on agronomy skills. Topics included identifying weeds, insects, and...

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Protect your eyes while working with pesticides

August 15, 2025

Pesticide News

How well are you protecting your eyes while applying pesticides? Unprotected or inadequately protected eyes are at high risk of pesticide exposure, which can result in mild to severe irritation, eye injury, vision loss, or even permanent disability. Eye exposure also provides a route for the...

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Jean Miles retires after 28 years with Pesticide Safety Education Program

September 25, 2025

Pesticide News

Jean Miles never liked any attention being placed on her, but she deserves some. She quietly retired this past March just as our busy clinic season was winding down. Jean first joined the Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP) as extra help in 1997...

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Welcome, Jonathan Jackson!

September 25, 2025

Pesticide News

The Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP) at the University of Illinois has recently filled a much needed, vacant position. We are excited to announce that Jonathan Jackson is PSEP’s new program assistant. Jonathan will be responsible for...

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The Illinois Pesticide Review is published six times a year. For more information about pesticide safety or for more issues of this newsletter, please visit us at www.pesticidesafety.illinois.edu. You can also reach us at 800-644-2123.

Editor: Michelle Wiesbrook, Extension Specialist, Pesticide Safety Education, Email: buesinge@illinois.edu
The development and/or publication of this newsletter has been supported with funding from the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

Disclaimer: Mention of trade names in this newsletter is for general information purposes only and does not constitute endorsement of one product over another, nor is discrimination intended against any product.