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Analysis: Super weeds pose growing threat to U.S. crops

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Analysis: Super weeds pose growing threat to U.S. crops

By Carey Gillam
Reuters

Farmer Mark Nelson bends down and yanks a four-foot-tall weed from his northeast Kansas soybean field. The “waterhemp” towers above his beans, sucking up the soil moisture and nutrients his beans need to grow well and reducing the ultimate yield. As he crumples the flowering end of the weed in his hand, […]

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Monsanto, Dow to begin pushing dangerous 2,4-D herbicide as ‘solution’ to superweeds

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Monsanto, Dow to begin pushing dangerous 2,4-D herbicide as ‘solution’ to superweeds

by Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews

(NaturalNews) It is something that many farmers of genetically-modified (GM) crops are already trying to do and failing to succeed in, but that the chemical companies responsible for the problem may soon be pushing as an alleged “solution.” The Dow Chemical Company has sponsored a study that aims to position the […]

Analysis: Super weeds pose growing threat to U.S. crops

Traditional Agriculture

Analysis: Super weeds pose growing threat to U.S. crops

Monsanto, Dow to begin pushing dangerous 2,4-D herbicide as ‘solution’ to superweeds

Traditional Agriculture

Monsanto, Dow to begin pushing dangerous 2,4-D herbicide as ‘solution’ to superweeds