herbicide

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Killing weeds with lasers allows farmer to avoid the dreaded "spray drift" that can happen with herbicide spraying, even if the targeting is as exact as possible.

From BBC

It's a tale of corporate malfeasance as old as time: corporation discovers herbicide.

From Salon

Even if he had enough fuel to get his equipment into the fields, he said he had insufficient fertilizer for all of his crops and no herbicides.

From Reuters

Maintaining healthy soil and plants can also reduce the need to use pesticides and herbicides — even “natural” or “organic” formulations, which can still kill off beneficial insects, Kurtz says.

From Seattle Times

Bayer said it would replace the herbicide’s main ingredient, glyphosate, with an unspecified active ingredient, subject to federal and state approval, while continuing to sell Roundup with glyphosate for farm use.

From Seattle Times