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by mattgrice 3581 days ago
As another poster has pointed out, there are many, many non-glyphosate herbicides.

In the past, Monsanto has required farmers buying Roundup-Ready seeds to sign license agreements stating that only Monsanto glyphosate may be used.

https://www.ssjr.com/pubdigassets/presentations/lawyer_7/sbs...

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Do you have any "roundup ready" chemical study that can determine, for example, what concentration of glyphosate (over the lesser killers) is in the commercial "Monsanto glyphosate ready" products?

I smell a rat here - perhaps they are selling glyphosate as a name on the product, but in reality there is so little of it compared to 'filler' weedkillers that they can profit from that too.

the whole world knows that glyph kills it all, so "glyph-ready" seems like a contradiction to me

source info comes from my time dealing with sugar cane producers who use pure glyph to increase the sugar content in the useful end of the canes they harvest

I'm confused by your post. "Roundup Ready" plants are genetically engineered to be resistant to the effects of glyphosate.