> Chances are, the “weeds” that Roundup were killing contributes more to the soil health than Roundup does. I mean, sure, if you take the cropland out of produ

> Chances are, the “weeds” that Roundup were killing contributes more to the soil health than Roundup does. I mean, sure, if you take the cropland out of production and let weeds do their thing, that will be great for soil health. That isn't farming though. The alternative to sedbed preparation with herbicide isn't just leaving the weeds. Typically, it is tillage. Are there no till practices that scale that dont involve Roundup? Yeah, sometimes. But thus far it's use has fostered the proliferation of no-till farming, now on 1/5th of US cropland, and has been a net benefit for soil conservation Unless you really want to argue tilling was better.