Concern about Herbicide use in vineyards
57,237 pounds in Napa (50,417 in 2012) and 84,606 pounds of glyphosate used in Sonoma County in 2013. The usage keeps going up and without a ban on the use of this “probable carcinogen” it will continue to be used as “best practices” rationale in viticulture to prevent weeds. Farmlands are being overrun with the superweeds that …