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    1 year ago

    No, it is a herbicide. Those are very different things and no farmer would ever mess this up.

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      1 year ago

      Herbicide is a subset of pesticides where the pests are herbs. You're thinking of insecticide where the pest is an insect. Pesticide is the broad term that encompasses both insecticides and herbicides.

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      A. I'm not a farmer, I'm a scientist. B. All herbicides are pesticides… look it up. It's like how all horses are mammals but not all mammals are horses