Agriculture & Food · Recorded milestone
Glyphosate weedkiller
Recorded year1974
Monsanto sells Roundup, John Franz's glyphosate that kills almost any plant it touches, later paired with crops engineered to survive it.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.