Tag: Dicamba

• Wednesday, February 19th 2020 - 06:35 UTC

  Bayer to appeal Missouri court award of US$ 265m to a US peach grower

  

  German chemical giant Bayer is to appeal against a Missouri court's award of US$ 265m (£203m) to a US peach grower who blamed a herbicide for crop damage. Farmer Bill Bader sued Bayer and BASF, alleging that dicamba weed-killer drifted onto his orchard from nearby fields, destroying them.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazilian soy farmers concerned with new Bayer biotech herbicide, Dicamba

  

  Brazilian farmers are wary of the imminent introduction of a new genetically modified soy seed technology because of the risks associated with dicamba, a herbicide the biotech product is designed to tolerate.