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"The pre-harvest use of glyphosate allows farmers to harvest crops as much as two weeks earlier than they normally would, an advantage in northern, colder regions. Spraying the weed killer kills the crop so it will dry sooner and produce more consistent yields. Farmers use glyphosate as a drying agent on wheat and oat crops In order to allow farmers to use glyphosate/Roundup on wheat, oats, barley, edible beans, and other crops, Monsanto had to petition the EPA to raise the tolerances for glyphosate in those crops tenfold. The EPA did this back in the 1990s. “Nobody paid attention to the tolerance petitions when Monsanto came in to raise the tolerance for glyphosate,” Chuck Benbrook says. “No one was paying attention to glyphosate residues in the diet, because there were none.” Today there are residues as consumer advocacy groups have conducted several studies finding high levels of glyphosate in wheat, oat, and bean products. All but four of the 21 products contained levels of glyphosate higher than what EWG scientists consider protective for children’s health with an adequate margin of safety. "