“There is no telling how many articles I have written with the theme of ‘Roundup every Monday morning until there is nothing out there but soybeans’ or ‘the best tank mix partner with Roundup is more Roundup.’ That made soybean farming so easy that even I could probably have done it.”Ford L. Baldwin of Arkansas-based Practical Weed Consultants, writing about the emerging problem of “superweeds” resistant to Monsanto’s blockbuster herbicide Roundup.
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