Insights and Stories on Bayer

Bayer slashes outlook as glyphosate demand weakens further

Jul. 25, 2023 at 8:44 am CDT

Reuters – Further deterioration in demand for glyphosate-based weed killers led Bayer BAYGn.DE to cut its full-year earnings outlook and announce a 2.5 billion euro ($2.8 billion USD) write-down on glyphosate-related assets. In an unscheduled statement late on Monday, the German drugs and pesticides maker said it was projecting 2023 […]

Bayer settles with New York over Roundup safety claims

Jun. 15, 2023 at 6:27 pm CDT

By jonathan-stempel

Bayer under investor pressure to speed up CEO changeover

Jan. 31, 2023 at 7:28 pm CST

By Ludwig Burger Patricia Weiss

Activist investor reported building stake in Bayer, seeking breakup

Jan. 10, 2023 at 3:53 pm CST

By Reuters

Bayer’s agriculture unit, consumer health drive outlook hike

Aug. 4, 2022 at 2:46 pm CDT

By Ludwig Burger Patricia Weiss

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

Jul. 7, 2022 at 6:00 pm CDT

Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a […]

By Brendan Pierson

U.S. Supreme Court again nixes Bayer challenge to weedkiller suits

Jun. 27, 2022 at 4:54 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected another Bayer AG BAYGn.DE bid to dismiss litigation alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant tries to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and […]

By Dietrich Knauth Lawrence Hurley

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to toss Roundup suits

Jun. 21, 2022 at 3:41 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Bayer’s bid to dismiss legal claims by customers who contend its Roundup herbicide causes cancer as the German company seeks to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and left in place […]

By lawrence-hurley

Bayer rolling out short corn variety tolerant of weather extremes

Feb. 17, 2022 at 6:31 pm CST

Reuters — Global farm chemicals and seeds maker Bayer will launch a corn variety in the United States next year that it says will better tolerate heavy winds associated with climate change, estimating future sales in North America as high as one billion euros. The corn, which grows one-third shorter […]

By Karl Plume

Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

Feb. 14, 2022 at 5:44 pm CST

No one is yet using the word ‘shortage’ but farmers may need to get ready for less Roundup temporarily, following a “force majeure” event at a plant supplying an ingredient in the recipe for glyphosate. Bayer, the chemical company whose Roundup brand remains the best known of the glyphosate herbicides, […]

By Dave Bedard