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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by JamisonM on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:11PM (#28124812)
You can say likewise about any other pesticide on that basis.. but I do wonder where the "hundreds of thousands of tonnes" comes from. My farm applies 540 grams of glyphosate per acre on our soybean crop each season.. if that is applied to every acre of farmland in the USA that would be 500mt of glyphosate. So you believe that a majority of the acres in the USA have at least 540g/ac applied and that a majority of that glyphosate is not metabolized by plants but is mobile in runoff?

I would be extremely interested in the research that validates that because it is not consistent with my experience.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by efficax on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:17PM (#28132273)
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-04/documents/gl...

280 million pounds of glyphosate used per year

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by JamisonM on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:01PM (#28135884)
That's 127 thousand metric tonnes, right?
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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by efficax on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:20AM (#28142295)
Roughly, and that's only the united states.
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