Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally
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...Number of (#) glyphosate/glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) applications on GT soybeans in Brazil and Argentina 1996–2014, data from Benbrook [3]....
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...Commercially, the rapid growth in sales and use of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) such as Roundup has been linked to the success of the glyphosate tolerant soybean seeds [3]....
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...Its use in the USA is extreme because of the permission of GLYresistant crops [4]....
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...…approved few HT-GM crops.3 Thus, much of the increase reflects conventional application of glyphosate as a broadspectrum weed killer between cropping cycles and in the expansion of no-till methods, and as HT-GM technologies continue to spread, one would expect even wider adoption (Benbrook 2016)....
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...Instead, in 1999, 2012, and 2015, the EPA increased tolerance levels (i.e., allowable residues) in cereals and feed crops between 15 and 600 percent (Benbrook 2016)....
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...Occasional food testing in the United States and Canada has revealed widespread presence of glyphosate and its principal metabolite (Bai and Ogbourne 2016; Benbrook 2016)....
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"Trends in glyphosate herbicide use ..." refers background in this paper
...John Franz, identified the herbicidal activity of glyphosate in 1970, and a formulated end-use product called Roundup was first sold commercially by Monsanto in 1974 [2]....
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