US Court Cancels Approvals for Widely Used Dicamba Weedkillers February 8, 2024 By Tom Polansek A U.S. court has nullified the government’s latest approvals of certain agricultural weedkillers sold by Bayer, BASF and Syngenta, fueling...
ANALYSIS: As Bayer Confronts Mounting Roundup Losses, All Eyes on Philadelphia Trial December 5, 2023 By Brendan Pierson With Bayer facing investor pressure to resolve thousands of lawsuits over its Roundup weedkiller after being hit with $2 billion...
Jury Awards $265M to Farmer Claiming Drifting Herbicides Damaged His Orchard February 17, 2020 By Patricia Weiss A Missouri jury’s $265 million award to peach grower Bill Bader in his lawsuit against herbicide providers Bayer and BASF...
Judge Grants Monsanto Request Limiting Evidence in Roundup Cancer Claims Trials January 4, 2019 A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based weed killer causes cancer has issued a ruling that could severely...
South Dakota Farmers Report 57K Acres Damaged by Dicamba October 27, 2017 South Dakota farmers have reported about 57,000 acres of crops damaged by an herbicide called dicamba. Dicamba is an herbicide...
Farmers in Upper Midwest Report Damage from Dicamba Herbicide October 20, 2017 By Blake Nicholson Hundreds of farmers in the Upper Midwest are reporting damage from the controversial herbicide dicamba, and state officials are considering...
How Herbicide Dicamba Was Approved Without Independent Testing: Reuters August 9, 2017 By Emily Flitter As the U.S. growing season entered its peak this summer, farmers began posting startling pictures on social media: fields of...
Crop Damage from Herbicide Dicamba a Growing Problem Across U.S. Farm Belt August 2, 2017 By Mario Parker Larry Martin in Illinois says he’s never seen anything like it in his 35 years of farming. Arkansas soybean grower...
Tennessee Restricts Monsanto Pesticide Use as Crop Damage Spreads July 14, 2017 By Karl Plume Tennessee on Thursday imposed restrictions on the use of dicamba, a flagship pesticide for Monsanto Co., becoming the fourth state...
In Arkansas Lawsuit, Farmers Blame Herbicide for Crop Damage June 16, 2017 A group of Arkansas farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide dicamba that they blame...