Dicamba Damage | AgriMarketing | Feb 17, 2020 --- Dicamba Damage: $250 million punitive damages verdict In the wake of Friday's $15 million verdict for compensatory damages, the same Missouri jury in the closely watched Monsanto/Bayer and BASF dicamba trial returned a $250 million punitive damages verdict on...
Dicamba lawsuit | Successful Farming | Gil Gullickson | Feb 14, 2020 --- Dicamba Lawsuit: Jury awarded Bader Farms $265 million in damages A federal jury in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has ruled in favor of Bader Farms, a Campbell, Missouri, peach farm, in its dicamba lawsuit against Bayer...
Dicamba Drift | Lancaster Farming | Philip Gruber | Feb 7, 2020 --- HERSHEY, Pa. — People keep wrecking Larry Shrawder’s grapevines. The perpetrators haven’t set foot in his vineyards, and they’re not even aware of the damage they’re causing at the time, but in just four years...
“Major Opportunity” For Farmers to Hold Monsanto/Bayer and BASF Accountable for Destruction Caused by Controversial Herbicide. CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO//February 15, 2020//In the wake of Friday’s $15 million verdict for compensatory damages, the same Missouri jury in the closely watched Monsanto/Bayer and BASF dicamba trial returned a...
Dicamba Complaints | NPR | Dan Charles | February 6, 2020 --- Every summer for the past three years, the phones have been ringing like crazy in the Office of the Indiana State Chemist. Farmers and homeowners were calling, complaining that their soybean fields or tomato plants looked...
Dicamba Lawsuit | St. Louis Public Radio | Corinne Ruff | Jan 24, 2020 --- Five years ago, the owner of Missouri’s largest peach farm started noticing damage to his orchard. A year later, Bader Farms estimated a loss of more than 30,000 trees. A lawsuit filed by the...
Dicamba Lawsuit | The Southern Illinoisan| Jonathan Hettinger | February 8, 2020 --- CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — In July 2016, Bill Bader, frustrated by the second straight year of alleged dicamba damage to his peach trees, got out his invoice book and hand wrote bills to his...
Dicamba | Indiana Public Media | Rebecca Thiele | February 11, 2020 --- Two bills working their way through the Indiana legislature would increase penalties for farmers and others who misuse pesticides. One aim of the legislation is to stop a controversial weed killer from drifting off of...
Dicamba | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Bryce Gray | December 22, 2019 --- MASCOUTAH — More farmers have filed official complaints with the state of Illinois about the weedkiller dicamba this year than ever before. As the herbicide has risen to prominence across a sprawling footprint of U.S. farmland,...
Dicamba Injury | Published by Progressive Farmer | By Emily Unglesbee | December 9, 2019 --- ARLINGTON, Va. (DTN) -- Three consecutive years of off-target dicamba injury is taking its toll on the agricultural industry. Leo Reed even has a name for it: dicamba fatigue. "States recognize that both we...