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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler voiced disappointment in a court decision to vacate registrations for three dicamba herbicides. Wheeler said of the ruling, "The 2020 growing season is well underway, and this creates an undue burden for our first conservationists – farmers." ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated the registrations of three Dicamba-based herbicides, one each from BASF, Corteva, and Bayer. Allison Crittenden, director of Congressional Relations with the American Farm Bureau, says these kinds of court decisions often hit farmers at the worst possible times ...

Over the weekend, a seven member jury awarded a Missouri peach farmer $265 million in a case against Bayer and BASF.  Bill Bader alleges the herbicide Dicamba ruined thousands of his trees back in 2015 and 2016, when the chemical drifted from a neighboring cotton field.  ...

To strengthen the future of agriculture, America’s Farmers Grow Ag Leaders, sponsored by the Bayer Fund, works with farmers to award scholarships to students pursuing careers in an agriculture-related field of study.  Jessica Rommel, Grow Ag Leaders Program Manager, says the program was developed in 2015 to help encourage rural students to pursue careers in agriculture.   “...

Congratulations to Nathan and Jessica Moore.  Not only are they both Ag teachers and FFA advisors in Washington, he with Colton, while she works in Oakesdale, they both were awarded national money to improve their efforts to teach Ag in the Classroom, through the Grow Rural Education Program by Bayer.  ...

A federal judge reduced a court-ordered penalty against Bayer to $25.2 million from $80.2 million. The award stems from a lawsuit against the company by a California man who claims glyphosate in Roundup caused his cancer. Edward Hardeman says he used Roundup for years, and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014, but is now in remission...

A Dow Jones report says Austrian lawmakers banned the key chemical in Roundup Herbicide, the first country to do so in Europe.  Lawmakers in the country were voting on a proposal by the opposition Social Democratic Party to ban the use of the chemical glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the world.  A ...

Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems associated with glyphosate.  Researchers exposed rats to the weed killer, and observed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities.  Ho...

Amidst lawsuits claiming the product causes cancer, Bayer has released more than 100 studies on the safety profile of glyphosate.  Bayer sent 107 reports to the European Food Safety Authority and has made the reports available on its dedicated transparency platform.  Th...

In response to an $80 million award to a California man suing the company over Roundup, Bayer says the verdict “does not change the weight of over four decades of extensive science.”  Bayer will appeal the action, which is considered the phase two verdict in the case Hardeman v Monsanto.  The jury found...