High herbicide-use counties often have higher-than-average late-stage cancer rates

By: Ben Felder, Investigate Midwest

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: March 20, 2026

Words: 222

Last Updated: 22 hours, 14 minutes ago

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Seventy-one percent of counties that spray the most glyphosate have late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence rates above the national average, according to a new data analysis from the advocacy group Food and Water Watch.

Last month, Investigate Midwest, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship, published an investigation that found 60% of the top 500 counties for pesticide use had overall cancer rates above the national average.

Food and Water Watch’s …

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