A report has found that farmers are using more herbicides on genetically engineered soybeans, corn, and cotton because of resistant weeds

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More herbicide use reported on genetically modified crops
A report has found that farmers are using more herbicides on genetically engineered soybeans, corn, and cotton because of resistant weeds.

A farmer harvests genetically engineered corn at his farm in Dixon, Calif. Some farmers say they like GE corn because there are fewer weeds and the crops are protected from worms that eat the roots.



.By Julie Masis Contributor to the Christian Science Monitor / December 21, 2009

A report released by the Organic Center found that the amount of herbicides used on genetically engineered crops has increased in the past 10 years, not decreased as might be expected. Since many genetically engineered crops were modified so that farmers could spray Roundup, or Glyphosate, to kill the weeds in their fields but not the crops themselves, the expectation was that less herbicide would be required. But the new report found that this is not what happened.