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    Nearly Half of All US Farms Now Have Superweeds

    By Tom Philpott
    motherjones.com

    Last year’s drought took a big bite out of the two most prodigious US crops, corn and soy. But it apparently didn’t slow down the spread of weeds that have developed resistance to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup (glyphosate), used on crops engineered by Monsanto to resist it. More than 70 percent of all […]

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      Resistant weeds leave farmers desperate

      As effectiveness of herbicides wanes, some try mixtures of older, more toxic chemicals, others pay itinerant workers to weed by hand.
      BY GEORGINA GUSTIN
      stltoday.com

      Farmers in the state’s south are resorting to some old-fashioned tactics.

      Weeds in cotton fields have gotten so tenacious — some with stems 4-inches around — that farmers are paying itinerant […]

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