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This appeared a few days ago in the Delta Free Press...I've been trying to  
send it with the accompanying hyperlink, but it keeps getting bounced (?).  
So...here it is - linkless. Sorry.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
One of world's worst weeds is now herbicide-resistant
 
Johnsongrass, one of the world’s most troublesome weeds, has become  
resistant to the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) at sites in Arkansas and  
Mississippi. 
Johnsongrass is the latest in a string of resistant weeds that  calls into 
question the widespread use of genetically engineered (GE)  
herbicide-tolerant 
crops. This year, U.S. farmers will apply Roundup, produced  by Monsanto, to 
more than 100 million acres of soybeans, corn, and cotton  engineered to 
tolerate the herbicide. These and other GE crops were sold with  the promise 
of 
decreased pesticide use, but the overuse of any one herbicide  almost 
inevitably 
leads to resistant weeds like the newly discovered  johnsongrass. 




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