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What we're looking at is the growth in the percentage of all the acres of U.S. farmland used to raise the respective crops that is now used to grow what's known as Herbicide Tolerant, or HT, varieties.
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Refresh Tag (s): Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animals; Biofuels; Biotechnology; Birds; Chemical; Contamination; Fish; Herbicide-tolerant; (more ...)
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Argentine Herbicide Lawsuit Alarms GM Soy Farmers'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'An environmental group filed suit in April before the Supreme Court, seeking a ban on glyphosate, a weed killer used with genetically modified soybeans that has helped fuel Argentina\'s soy boom by dramatically boosting yields.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Argentine Herbicide Lawsuit Alarms GM Soy Farmers 2009
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Herbicide damage resulting from misapplication of chemicals also can be mistaken for other problems.
Pest management 2009
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Promoted to Headline (H2) on 7/22/09: US Role in Massive Aerial Herbicide Spraying Revealed yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'US Role in Massive Aerial Herbicide Spraying Revealed'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Herbicide manufacturers and officials from the State Department, Environmental Protection Agency and Drug Enforcement Administration, plus Colombian officials, have been claiming for about seven years that the chemical cocktail including Roundup Ultra, in fact sometimes deadly to plants and often fish, is harmless to humans.
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Herbicide-resistant, gene-spliced plants, now grown on more than 80 million hectares annually world-wide, have spurred the adoption of more environment-friendly herbicides and agricultural practices.
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Herbicide concentrations had also been found on the riverbed and in neighbouring irrigation land.
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Herbicide contamination was detected in soil in the Limpopo valley and in water from Messina to the Kruger National Park, prompting complaints by Mozambique and calls from local farmers for compensation.
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Herbicide working group chairman Dr Gerhardt Verdoorn said on
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SECDEF to the President, subj: Defoliant/Herbicide Program in South Vietnam, Nov 16, 1962. 57.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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