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murpheeslaw

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8. Arsenic acid used as a cotton defoliant

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon May 31, 2021, 05:15 PM

May 2021

Prior to Harvest. A lot of cotton was and is grown in TX. So it is probably leaching into streams and aquifers with every rain event.

Now days they use roundup.

“Arsenic acid first was sold as a cotton desiccant in 1956. It was the major cotton desiccant for more than 30 years, because it was effective and inexpensive”

https://www.cotton.org/foundation/upload/Cotton-Harvest-Management_Chapter1.pdf]

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