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Date Stock Title
Nov 1 FMC FMC Corporation and Envu complete the sale of FMC's Global Specialty Solutions business
Nov 1 SITE SiteOne Landscape Supply Third Quarter 2024 Earnings: Revenues Beat Expectations, EPS Lags
Oct 31 SITE Grainger Q3 Earnings & Revenues Miss Estimates, Increase Y/Y
Oct 31 FMC FMC Third Quarter 2024 Earnings: Revenues Beat Expectations, EPS Lags
Oct 31 FMC FMC Corp (FMC) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong Sales Growth Amid Market Challenges
Oct 31 SITE SiteOne Landscape Supply Inc (SITE) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Highlights: Navigating Market ...
Oct 31 FMC Q3 2024 FMC Corp Earnings Call
Oct 31 SITE Q3 2024 SiteOne Landscape Supply Inc Earnings Call
Oct 30 SITE SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. (SITE) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
Oct 30 FMC FMC Corporation 2024 Q3 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation
Oct 30 FMC FMC Corporation (FMC) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
Oct 30 SITE SiteOne Landscape (SITE) Q3 Earnings Lag Estimates
Oct 30 FMC FMC's Earnings and Sales Surpass Estimates in Q3 on Higher Volumes
Oct 30 SITE SiteOne (NYSE:SITE) Surprises With Q3 Sales
Oct 30 SITE SiteOne Landscape GAAP EPS of $0.97 misses by $0.18, revenue of $1.21B beats by $20M
Oct 30 SITE SiteOne Landscape: Q3 Earnings Snapshot
Oct 30 SITE SiteOne Landscape Supply Announces Third Quarter 2024 Earnings
Oct 30 SITE Zacks Industry Outlook Siemens, W.W. Grainger and SiteOne Landscape Supply
Oct 29 FMC Earnings movers: Google parent Alphabet climbs, AMD drops in after-hours trade Tuesday
Oct 29 FMC FMC: Q3 Earnings Snapshot
Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weedkillers, are chemical substances used to control unwanted plants. Selective herbicides control specific weed species, while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed, while non-selective herbicides (sometimes called total weedkillers in commercial products) can be used to clear waste ground, industrial and construction sites, railways and railway embankments as they kill all plant material with which they come into contact. Apart from selective/non-selective, other important distinctions include persistence (also known as residual action: how long the product stays in place and remains active), means of uptake (whether it is absorbed by above-ground foliage only, through the roots, or by other means), and mechanism of action (how it works). Historically, products such as common salt and other metal salts were used as herbicides, however these have gradually fallen out of favor and in some countries a number of these are banned due to their persistence in soil, and toxicity and groundwater contamination concerns. Herbicides have also been used in warfare and conflict.
Modern herbicides are often synthetic mimics of natural plant hormones which interfere with growth of the target plants. The term organic herbicide has come to mean herbicides intended for organic farming. Some plants also produce their own natural herbicides, such as the genus Juglans (walnuts), or the tree of heaven; such action of natural herbicides, and other related chemical interactions, is called allelopathy. Due to herbicide resistance - a major concern in agriculture - a number of products combine herbicides with different means of action. Integrated pest management may use herbicides alongside other pest control methods.
In the US in 2007, about 83% of all herbicide usage, determined by weight applied, was in agriculture. In 2007, world pesticide expenditures totaled about $39.4 billion; herbicides were about 40% of those sales and constituted the biggest portion, followed by insecticides, fungicides, and other types. Smaller quantities are used in forestry, pasture systems, and management of areas set aside as wildlife habitat.

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