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‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers
‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers
Internal company records show the companies knew crop damage from their weed killer would be extensive. They sold it anyway.
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Published December 10th, 2020 at 6:00 AM
Above image credit: Will Glazik with his organic corn at his farm near Paxton, Illinois, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. (Darrell Hoemann | The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting)
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 weed killer dicamba at the same time that it has polluted the air for hours and sometimes days.  ....

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