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A brown-skinned wearing a cap and work clothes sprays a white fog out of a yellow sprayer over green vegetation.
A farmworker sprays herbicides.

Monsanto establishes an agricultural division with a focus on herbicides.

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A farmworker sprays herbicides.

Herbicides represent a new profit-making industry to produce a chemical approach to containing weeds, and are marketed both to large-scale agricultural and to home consumers.