‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s moves to force dicamba on farmers
Story Date: 12/7/2020

 

Source: Johnathan Hettinger, ST. LOUIS DISPATCH, 12/5/20



Get poisoned or get on board. That’s the choice soybean farmers such as Will Glazik face. The past few summers, farmers near Glazik’s central Illinois farm have sprayed so much of the weedkiller dicamba at the same time that it has polluted the air for hours and sometimes days.  As Glazik puts it, there are two types of soybeans: Monsanto’s, which are genetically engineered to withstand dicamba, and everyone else’s. 

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