Insights and Stories on Bayer

Democratic contender Warren targets corporate agriculture

Mar. 28, 2019 at 7:25 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren took aim on Wednesday at agricultural conglomerates, promising her administration would break up big agribusiness mergers that she said have hurt family farmers. Warren, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts and a fierce Wall Street critic, released a broad plan that she […]

U.S. jury says Bayer must pay $80 million to man in Roundup cancer trial

Mar. 28, 2019 at 4:04 pm CDT

By Alexandria Sage Tina Bellon

Second U.S. jury finds Bayer’s Roundup caused cancer

Mar. 19, 2019 at 4:47 pm CDT

By Jim Christie Tina Bellon

Bayer reaps profit lift from Monsanto

Feb. 27, 2019 at 10:49 am CST

By Ludwig Burger

Bottles of Roundup herbicide on a shelf.

Brazil health officials find glyphosate non-cancerous

Feb. 27, 2019 at 6:06 am CST

By Jake Spring

DowDuPont’s Corteva arm buys Clearfield canola system

Feb. 20, 2019 at 8:23 pm CST

On the market since last summer, BASF’s herbicide-tolerant, non-GMO Clearfield canola business in Canada and the U.S. has landed at the door of Corteva Agriscience. Corteva, the merged seed and chemical business of Dow and DuPont, announced Wednesday it has closed a deal to buy the Clearfield system, including its […]

By GFM Staff

French, German farmers destroy crops after GMOs found in Bayer seeds

Feb. 6, 2019 at 6:34 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — Bayer said on Wednesday that farmers in France and Germany were digging up thousands of hectares of rapeseed fields after traces of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) banned for cultivation were found in seeds sold by the company. GMO crops are widely grown across the world, but […]

By Sybille De La Hamaide

U.S. judge to allow controversial evidence in Roundup cancer trials

Jan. 28, 2019 at 7:48 pm CST

Reuters — A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence that the company had hoped to exclude from upcoming trials. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria during a hearing in San Francisco federal court called his decision “probably most […]

By Tina Bellon

France’s glyphosate exit seen 80 per cent complete by 2021

Jan. 25, 2019 at 3:39 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — France expects to have cut the use of glyphosate herbicide by 80 per cent by early 2021, its agriculture minister said on Friday, less than previously anticipated due to the number of farmers who will qualify for an exemption. In November 2017, President Emmanuel Macron pledged […]

By Reuters

Health Canada dismisses glyphosate objections

Jan. 12, 2019 at 3:31 am CST

Health Canada’s 2017 decision requiring no major changes to product labels for glyphosate herbicide will stand, despite the objections filed in its wake. The federal health department said Friday it has reviewed eight notices of objection received after it released its final re-evaluation decision on glyphosate in April 2017. The […]