Overuse of herbicides costing UK economy £400 million per year

Widespread use of herbicides leading to resistant black-grass is costing UK millions in profit.

ZSL scientists have for the first time put an economic figure on the herbicidal resistance of a major agricultural weed that is decimating winter-wheat farms across the UK.

Source: Overuse of herbicides costing UK economy £400 million per year | Zoological Society of London (ZSL)