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18 Ontarios Neonic Saga Continues AS farmers begin to place their seed orders for the 2016 seeding season the debate around pollinator health as it relates to the use of seed treatments specifically neonicotinoid treated seed continues both at the provin- cial and national levels. Ontario takes the spotlight when comes to this issue because of its newly approved regu- lations regarding the use of seed-applied neonicotinoids. As part of its broader strategy to protect pollinators the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change OMECC made changes to its regulations under the Ontario Pesticides Act to meet its goal of reaching an 80 per cent reduction in the number of acres planted with neonicotinoid- treated corn and soybean seed by 2017. In doing so the government of Ontario outlined that bee health has been declining a cause for global concern due to loss of habitat and poor nutrition pesticide exposure disease pests and genetics and climate change and weather. These regulations represent the least comprehensive plan on pollinator health available disregarding the approach of the White House the Senate and the Ontario Pollinator Health Blueprint all holistic approaches said Mark Brock Grain Farmers of Ontario chair when the regulations came into law. Known as Ontario Regulation 6309 the amended regulation establishes a system for regulating neonicotinoid-treated corn What you as a seed treatment vendor need to know about the Ministry of Environment and Climate Changes Regulation 6309 which establishes a system for regulating a new class of pesticides.