Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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So the president is hearing that.
The farmers are hearing that and they're saying, you know, this is a temporary fix.
We're putting huge amounts of money into studying the impacts of glyphosate right now in my agency.
I'm doing that.
And we're doingβand the president has made a big commitment, a billion-dollar commitment, not only to regenerate farming, but also to developing new ways of chemicalβ of dramatically reducing the amount of chemicals in our agriculture.
I met this week with three farmers who are using this new system of lasers.
which is now the cheapest way to control weeds in the vegetable fields.
So, you know, vegetables, lettuce, celery, all of these vegetables now, they're using a lot of them.
You're going to see a very quick transition.
It's an attachment that is dragged by a tractor.
It kills the weeds at every stage of their life.
It identifies their species and kills them instantly all the way down through their root system by exploding them with this laser.
And yeah, here's one of the- This is what it looks like?
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
No, in fact, you get a 30% increase in productivity of the farm.
And the growing season shortens by three weeks for onions.
And that is a huge economic boom.
It pays itself back.
And for some of these farmers, it pays itself back in nine months.
It's a million-dollar machine, but it pays back.