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The glyphosate ban in Colombia was subsequently lifted. [243] In April 2019, Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development banned the use of glyphosate throughout the country. [253] In August 2020, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that glyphosate would be gradually phased out of use in Mexico by late 2024. [254]
Farmers liken glyphosate to a carpenter’s hammer — simple but essential. This weed killer enables efficient, cost-effective crop production and supports no-till farming, a technique that ...
A 2012 study found a correlation between the reduction of milkweed in farms that grew glyphosate-resistant crops and the decline in adult monarch butterfly populations in Mexico. [289] The New York Times reported that the study "raises the somewhat radical notion that perhaps weeds on farms should be protected. [290]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union governments failed on Friday to give a decisive opinion on a proposal to extend by 10 years EU approval for the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer ...
A 2008–2009 survey of 144 populations of waterhemp in 41 Missouri counties revealed glyphosate resistance in 69%. Weeds from some 500 sites throughout Iowa in 2011 and 2012 revealed glyphosate resistance in approximately 64% of waterhemp samples. As of 2023, 58 weed species have developed glyphosate resistance. [70]
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The March Against Monsanto was an international grassroots movement and protest against Monsanto, a producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide. [1] The movement was founded by Tami Canal in response to the failure of California Proposition 37 , a ballot initiative which would have required ...
In July 2013 Austria banned the use of pre-harvest glyphosate citing the precautionary principle. [26] In April 2015 an oat buyer in Western Canada announced that it was refusing oats in which pre-harvest glyphosate had been used. [27] [28]