“We Now Have the Roadmap”: Farmers from Missouri, Arkansas and North Carolina Describe Controversial Herbicide’s Impact on Their Crops and Livelihood; Monsanto/Bayer and BASF Seen as Lowballing Likely Legal Fallout. ST. LOUIS, MO.//February 26, 2020//More than 2,000 U.S. farmers are likely to file lawsuits seeking justice...
“We Now Have the Roadmap”: Farmers from Missouri, Arkansas and North Carolina Describe Controversial Herbicide’s Impact on Their Crops and Livelihood; Monsanto/Bayer and BASF Seen as Lowballing Likely Legal Fallout. ST. LOUIS, MO.//February 26, 2020//More than 2,000 U.S. farmers are likely to file lawsuits seeking justice...
Dicamba Lawsuits | Investigate Midwest | Jonathan Hettinger | Feb 20, 2020 Dicamba Lawsuits: $265 million verdict is just the beginning of a new legal battle between The $265 million verdict issued last week against German agribusiness giants Bayer and BASF is just the beginning of a new...
Dicamba | Law.com | Amanda Bronstad | Feb 26, 2020 Dicamba: "Could There Be A Dicamba Deluge?" Monsanto Co. got hit with a $265 million punitive damages verdict—but this time, it wasn’t over Roundup. A federal jury in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, came back with a $15 million...
Dicamba Lawsuits | Bloomberg Environment | Adam Allington & Martina Barash | Feb 18, 2020 Dicamba Verdict: Federal jury slapped Bayer and BASF with $265 million in compensatory and punitive damages Bayer and BASF’s recent legal defeat over drifting pesticides could encourage more farmers to file lawsuits,...
Herbicide | Wall Street Journal | Jacob Bunge | Feb 18, 2020 The latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 1417 ET - Plaintiffs’ lawyers say they’re rapidly signing up new farmer clients to...
Dicamba | St. Louis Public Radio | Corinne Ruff | Feb 15, 2020 --- The first dicamba-related lawsuit to go to trial A federal jury in the first dicamba-related lawsuit to go to trial determined Saturday that Monsanto and BASF should pay $250 million in punitive damages. That’s more than...
Dicamba | KMOX | Michael Calhoun | Feb 18, 2020 --- Chemical 'dicamba' can be blown to nearby fields and kill unprotected crops ST. LOUIS (KMOX) -- The number is eye-popping: a Missouri jury awarded $265 million to a Bootheel-area farmer who says he lost his peach crop because...
Dicamba | Investigate Midwest | Jonathan Hettinger | Feb 17, 2020 --- Dicamba herbicides moving off of neighboring fields German agribusiness giants Bayer and BASF will have to pay $250 million in punitive damages to Bader Farms, the largest peach farm in Missouri, for damage caused by their...
Dicamba | AgriMarketing | Feb 17, 2020 --- Wave of litigation from U.S. farmers who blame drift-prone dicamba herbicides for millions of acres of crop damage CAPE GIRARDEAU — One day after finding that uncontrolled drift from the weedkiller dicamba caused millions of dollars in damages to Missouri’s...