Source: ORGANIC AUTHORITY, 10/2/17

After more than forty years, farmers using Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide recently encountered a problem: weeds were becoming resistant to it, making glyphosate no longer an effective treatment. Experts have long awaited this day.
“When they first came out with seeds that were genetically engineered to resist glyphosate,” says Mark Kastel, co-founder of the organic watchdog group the Cornucopia Insititue, “The question wasn’t if – the question was when would these crops develop resistance to this almost universally used herbicide.”

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