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Justin Cariker grabs a 7-foot-tall Palmer pigweed at his farm, bending the wrist-thick stem to reveal how it has overwhelmed the cotton plant beneath it. This is no ordinary weed: Over time it has developed resistance to Monsanto's best-selling herbicide, Roundup. Hundreds of such "superweeds" are rising defiantly across this corner of the Mississippi Delta. "We're not winning the battle," Cariker, owner of Maud Farms in Dundee, Miss., says as he looks at weeds that tower over his infested cotton field like spindly green scarecrows....as Bloomberg BusinessWeek did under the headline "Attack of the Superweeds," I have to believe that Monsanto's top brass starts to worry.
Comment: For a more in depth look at the 'Superweed' issue plaguing America's industrial agribusiness industry read the following articles:
US: 'Superweed' explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands
The Escalating Chemical War on Weeds
Monsanto's Superweeds Come Home to Roost: 11 Million U.S. Acres are Infested: