Dicamba | Investigate Midwest | Jonathan Hettinger | April 14, 2020 In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Monsanto’s dicamba-based herbicide under a conditional two-year registration. The agency determined dicamba, a traditionally volatile herbicide, would no longer be allowed to be sprayed unless incidents of...
BASF | Law360 | Cara Salvatore | April 14, 2020 Law360 (April 13, 2020, 10:25 PM EDT) -- Bayer-owned Monsanto, jointly facing a $250 million punitive damages verdict over the pesticide dicamba with manufacturer BASF, urged a Missouri federal judge on Friday to reject BASF's requests...
Dicamba | Progressive Farmer | Emily Unglesbee | April 9, 2020 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (DTN) -- The inspector general of the EPA is looking into whether EPA acted properly when it registered dicamba in 2016 and 2018, as well as review states' use of Section 24(c) labels,...
Dicamba | Food Sleuth Radio | Dan Hemmelgarn and Melinda Hemmelgarn | April 3, 2020 [audio mp3="https://dicambadrift.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/c3649c6cc7429a278a3bdf579dabd2a5.mp3"][/audio] "Did you know that a Missouri peach farmer lost 30,000 trees and his peach business due to drift from Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian,...
Monsanto | The Guardian | Carey Gillam | March 30, 2020 Monsanto and BASF aware that new agricultural seed and chemical system would probably lead to damage on many US farms The US agriculture giant Monsanto and the German chemical giant BASF were aware for years that their...
Dicamba | Law 360 | Sarah Jarvis | March 16, 2020 Dicamba class certification briefing: deadline is extended to April 16 Law360 (March 16, 2020, 10:40 PM EDT) -- A Missouri federal court has ordered a one-month extension for class certification briefing in the multidistrict litigation over Monsanto...
Monsanto | Law 360 | Christopher Cole | March 13, 2020 Monsanto being investigated by the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) Law360 (March 13, 2020, 10:43 PM EDT) -- Brazil’s antitrust regulator is investigating Bayer and Monsanto business practices over allegations of anti-competitive conduct in the...
Monsanto | Law 360 | Cara Salvatore | March 12, 2020 Law360 (March 12, 2020, 9:48 PM EDT) -- Farmers suing Monsanto and BASF over the weedkiller dicamba told a Missouri federal court Thursday that BASF’s criticism of a proposed delay on class certification briefing and a...
Monsanto | U. S. Right to Know | Carey Gillam | March 6, 2020 Named defendants include Bayer CEO Werner Baumann, who orchestrated the $63 billion Monsanto purchase A California shareholder of Bayer AG on Friday filed a lawsuit against the companies’ top executives claiming they breached their...
Bayer - Dicamba | The New York Times | Tom Polansek, Rod Nickel | March 4, 2020 Bayer's herbicide for Xtend soybeans, dicamba, is known to drift away and damage crops that are unprotected CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Bayer AG's takeover of Monsanto has been beset by problems,...