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Breaking out major prognostic tools (including an 8-ball, Ouija board, paper fortune teller and dart board…yeah we’re high tech around here) here are some of the big agricultural issues on the horizon for 2019.
In the past year Dave Dickey has blogged and waxed on a number of consequential agricultural events. Find out which ag story was the the most consequential in 2018.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended use of pest control substance, dicamba, until December 20, 2020. What are the new regulations for extended use of the herbicide?
Lawsuits are sprouting up all over the country regarding Monsanto’s rollout of dicamba resistant soybean seeds. What’s the latest?
Since the recent merger of Bayer AG and Monsanto, Bayer has been vague on their strategy in handling the inherited lawsuits against Monsanto.
Ironically I was on some R-and-R in St. Louis, headquarters to Monsanto, when a California jury dropped the mother of all H-bombs on Bayer’s newest acquisition: Monsanto’s flagship weed killer Roundup contributed to high school groundsman Dewayne Johnson’s non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Put bluntly the jury ruled Roundup causes cancer and it awarded terminally-ill Johnson $39 million in compensatory and $250 million in punitive damages. Yup $289 million total. Bayer, which purchased Monsanto just two months ago, has taken a massive financial hit, losing more than 10 percent of share value. So how did Monsanto and Bayer lose?
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting sits down for a Q&A with Charles Benbrook, lead attorney for Monsanto. Benbrook talks about a recent trial and what it could mean for the future of glyphosate.
Agribusiness company Monsanto has been ordered to pay roughly $290 million in damages to a California man who claims his cancer was caused by Roundup, a popular Monsanto herbicide.