About 5 years ago I learned something I never knew about glyphosate use, despite having grown up on a farm.

We live in a fairly heavy wheat producing area. I was driving past two nearly identical wheat fields in early September, and I was wondering why one was still green and the other one was completely golden brown and beginning to dry.

It wasn’t until I hopped online and started to research why, that I learned about the common practice of using glyphosate late season to intentionally kill and desiccate the plants to ensure harvest prior to the wet weather in the fall. One farmer had done it, the other had not.

I kept an eye on those fields and the untreated field was harvested a month later than the desiccated one, but still successfully.

Glyphosate, I’ve since learned, regularly shows up in tested bread and cereals. Imagine, intentionally putting a known carcinogen on the world’s food crops. Stunning.