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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A recent New York Times article </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/magazine/superweeds-monsanto.html" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/magazine/superweeds-monsanto.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Attack
of the Superweeds: Herbicides are losing the war — and agriculture might never be the same again.</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> raises
a question about whether cheatgrass or other non-native invasive plants have developed resistance to herbicidal control methods, including particularly but not limited to Indaziflam/Dicamba mixtures. </span><br>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">Let’s put the right seed, in the right place, at the right time! </span></p>
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