http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/feb/26/monster-weed-escapes-chemic
al-lasso/
'Monster  weed' escapes chemical lasso
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Weeds have always bedeviled  farmers, but as planting season begins,
Palmer pigweed - called a "monster  weed" - is expected to be an
agricultural game changer. That's because it has  become resistant to
Monsanto's Roundup herbicide.

Larry Steckel, a  University of Tennessee weed specialist said "The
fear is that it's going to  be on huge acres of fields this year and I
think it most likely will be,"  Steckel said. "It's changed
everything."

Dyersburg cotton and soybean  farmer Jimmy Moody said he has worried
about Roundup-resistant weeds for a  long time but that it finally
"exploded on us last year."

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