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Pesticide use and cancer risk rise together across Americaโ€™s heartland

Increasingly, pesticides are being blamed for rising cancer rates across Americaโ€™s agricultural communities.  Hardin County, home to around 800 farms, has a pesticide use rate more than four times the national average and a cancer rate among the highest in the state.  Most of the 500 counties with the highest pesticide use per square mile […]

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