“U.S. farmers are dousing their fields with a wider array of herbicides, helping some turn a corner in the war on super weeds but adding new costs and environmental concerns.
Farmers for a decade have fought weeds that developed resistance to the nation’s dominant weed killer, glyphosate, which is widely sold by Monsanto Co. MON -0.09% as Roundup. Now they’re finding success deploying larger quantities of other, sometimes older herbicides.
About 42 million acres of soybeans planted in 2012 were treated with non-glyphosate herbicides, double the 2006 total and equivalent to 57% of all soybean acres, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report this year.”
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