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02/28/2019 / By Tracey Watson

It’s time to look at soil health: Synthetic fertilizers, herbicides have taken an enormous toll, with long-term consequences

The thing about soil is that you cannot tell how healthy it is just by looking at it, and it can take years to determine the long-term effects of what you put in to it. For this reason, agrochemical companies have been able to push the use of harmful pesticides and other chemicals for decades […]

01/30/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

GMO potato creator says he’s concerned that his work may be negatively impacting human health

Once hailed as an invention that will end world hunger, GMO foods are increasingly being exposed as dangerous and terribly short-sighted, and now the inventor of one popular GMO food is joining the chorus of detractors. While serving as Simplot Plant Sciences’ Director of Research in the early 2000s, Caius Rommens led the development of […]

07/31/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Dicamba “drift” destroying crops downwind from application sites of Monsanto’s toxic herbicide

It’s one of the most controversial issues in modern agriculture: persistent crop chemicals of a highly toxic nature that spread unabated beyond the field. The experts call this “drift,” and one herbicide in particular that’s causing major problems in this regard is dicamba, also known as “Xtend,” a broad-leafed Monsanto weedkiller product commonly applied to […]

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