President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding glyphosate production, calling the Roundup ingredient essential to ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to boost the production of a controversial chemical found in Roundup weedkiller.

The executive order comes months after the administration approved Bayer’s plan for a new phosphate mine, partially on public land.

The executive order outlines why and how USDA will ensure adequate supplies of elemental phosphates and glyphosate herbicides.

Bayer is the only company producing glyphosate in the United States but the farming sector there also imports large volumes of generic copies from China.” ...