How Much Roundup Do Farmers Actually Use? - A Year in the Life of a Farmer
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I keep hearing how we farmers "douse" our crops with glyphosate; that we apply massive quantities with no concept of safety, ignoring label rates, and simply apply it as many times as we want to whatever crop we want. This couldn't be further from the truth. Here's the reality.
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Roundup Weed Killer Uses, Safety & Cancer Risk
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Blowing in the Wind: Dealing With Roundup Herbicide Drift - Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
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Child labor on farms is legal and common in the US. It probably shouldn't be. - Vox
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Days are numbered for pre-harvest use of glyphosate
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Roundup, the World's Favorite Weed Killer, Linked to Liver, Metabolic Diseases in Kids - Inside Climate News
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Petitions push feds to ban Canada's most popular pesticide
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Roundup and Risk Assessment
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Long-Term Glyphosate Use Effect on Wheat - The Farmer's Life
Roundup Ruled the Farm, Now Its Maker Has a Challenger - WSJ
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Nearly 20,000 farmers received farm subsidies for 37 consecutive years
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A potentially cancer-causing chemical is sprayed on much of America's farmland. Here is where it is used the most.
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These farmers have Parkinson's disease – and claim a weedkiller is to blame, Pesticides