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No. Farmers in the U.S. began growing herbicide resistant plants in the 1940s, soon after the first synthetic herbicide was developed. The use of herbicides and crops that could resist them increased markedly in the 1960s and 70s. By 1995, herbicide resistant crops were grown on virtually all acres of major commodity crops.
