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- Rainbow Herbicides - The Rainbow Herbicides is a name given to a plethora of chemicals used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Success with Project AGILE field tests with herbicides in South Vietnam in 1961 led to the formal herbicidal program Trail Dust (1961 - 1971).
- Preemergent herbicides - Preemergent herbicides prevent the germination of seeds by inhibiting a key enzyme. Preemergent herbicides are used to prevent crabgrass from appearing in the summer by application during the late spring.
- Organic coffee - Organic coffee is coffee that has been produced without the use of pesticides or herbicides Although beneficial to the producer and the consumer, organic coffees tend to yield less than non-organic coffees since non-organic coffees are typically non-shaded coffees.
- Transgenic maize - Transgenic maize (corn) has been deliberately genetically modified to have agronomically desirable traits. Traits that have been engineered into corn are resistance to herbicides and incorporation of a gene that codes for the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin, protecting plants from insect pests.
- Executive Order 11850 - Executive Order 11850--Renunciation of certain uses in war of chemical herbicides and riot control agents.