glyphosate

A routine draft assessment of glyphosate by the EPA says it’s a beneficial tool for farmers and promotes conservation-based practices.  The American Farmer Bureau Federation’s Allison Crittenden said the draft review by the EPA should keep glyphosate in the farmer’s toolbox.   “This is part...

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 ...

Glyphosate continues to create controversy and debate, not only here in the U.S., but around the world.  Greg Doud, chief Ag negotiator with the U.S. Trade Office, says right now glyphosate is applied to over 90% of American corn, soybeans, and cotton acres.  ...

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...

Growers across the nation are facing a rise in herbicide resistant weeds.  Growers reported an increase in resistant weeds in 2018, and 2019 looks to be trending the same.   “Seems to be a broken record here but we continue to see more and more resistant weeds," said Gordon Vail, technical product lead for corn herbicides at Syngenta.  "Growers are ...

The California groundskeeper who won a lawsuit against Bayer’s Monsanto by claiming that Roundup herbicide caused his cancer has agreed to accept $78 million dollars.  Dewayne Johnson’s doing so against the advice of his lawyers because he wants to “ensure that the situation is resolved in his lifetime.”  The jury’s initial rewar...

Bayer says that it’s focused on defending Monsanto weed-killers containing glyphosate from lawsuits over claims that the products cause cancer.  However, Bayer CEO Werner Baumann said they might settle those cases if the court costs become too high.  Earlier this ...

Bayer won a tentative ruling that could slash most of the $289 million dollar award in the California trial regarding claims that glyphosate in Roundup causes cancer.  A California judge is also considering the possibility of ordering a new trial on whether the company is really at fault for an ex-school groundskeeper’s illness.  During a Baye...