Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup; kills remaining queens

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30. I didn't think Roundup would be applied at harvest either but it often is with wheat -

Good Idea to only eat organic wheat unless you want to eat glyphosate - the World Health Organization says it's a possible carcinogen but there are also studies about how it really can mess up your gut bacteria compromising your immunity.

Glyphosate Used to Speed Up Wheat Harvest

Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., who published the paper on the mounting use of glyphosate, says the practice of spraying glyphosate on wheat prior to harvest, known as desiccating, began in Scotland in the 1980s.

“Farmers there often had trouble getting wheat and barley to dry evenly so they can start harvesting. So they came up with the idea to kill the crop (with glyphosate) one to two weeks before harvest to accelerate the drying down of the grain,” he said.

The pre-harvest use of glyphosate allows farmers to harvest crops as much as two weeks earlier than they normally would, an advantage in northern, colder regions.

The practice spread to wheat-growing areas of North America such as the upper Midwestern U.S. and Canadian provinces such as Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

“Desiccation is done primarily in years where conditions are wet and the crop is slow to dry down,” Joel Ransom, an agronomist at North Dakota State University, said.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/05/glyphosate-sprayed-crops-before-harvest/