29.03.2019
- Bayer’s $63 billion acquisition of US agribusiness giant Monsanto last year is turning into a nightmare of unexpected dimension for the German group’s image and its share price...
27.02.2019
- As the first of a new series of court cases brought by cancer patients against the former agrochemicals giant Monsanto – now part of Bayer – got under way in San Francisco on Feb...
23.01.2019
- The controversial herbicide chemical glyphosate has been back in the news again lately, not least because of continuing speculation over what impact the more than 9,000 legacy...
02.11.2018
- Dewayne Johnson, a terminally ill former school groundskeeper, has accepted a California judge’s reduced award in a case he won against Monsanto in August. Johnson blames the...
13.08.2018
- Bayer and Monsanto have lost their first legal case as a merged company. A jury in the US state of California ordered the former US agribusiness market leader, since June part of...
19.07.2018
- Helm Agro US, part of major German marketing group Helm, has signed an agreement to acquire BASF’s Extreme herbicide for an undisclosed sum. The herbicide, a premix of glyphosate...
28.01.2018
- The European Parliament is planning to establish a special committee to review the EU’s authorization procedure for crop protection agents. The plans reflect the Parliament’s...
28.11.2017
- On its seventh try, the EU’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed at a meeting on Nov. 27 agreed to extend the license of the herbicide chemical glyphosate for five...
