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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to toss Roundup suits

By GFM Network News June 21, 2022

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Bayer’s bid to dismiss legal claims by customers who contend its Roundup herbicide causes cancer as the German company seeks to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and left in place a lower court decision that […] Read more

File photo of growing corn plants. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Corn, Crops, Reuters, Weather

Bayer rolling out short corn variety tolerant of weather extremes

By GFM Network News February 18, 2022

Reuters — Global farm chemicals and seeds maker Bayer will launch a corn variety in the United States next year that it says will better tolerate heavy winds associated with climate change, estimating future sales in North America as high as one billion euros. The corn, which grows one-third shorter than current varieties, will be […] Read more

Crops

Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

Company provides heads-up on 'force majeure event'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 14, 2022

No one is yet using the word ‘shortage’ but farmers may need to get ready for less Roundup temporarily, following a “force majeure” event at a plant supplying an ingredient in the recipe for glyphosate. Bayer, the chemical company whose Roundup brand remains the best known of the glyphosate herbicides, reported as much in an […] Read more

Blair Ford says he was impressed with how easy the Climate FieldView software is to use. Once he upgrades the air seeding system to a unit with variable-rate capability, he will be looking forward to creating variable-rate prescriptions for fertilizer application and seeding rates.

Equipment, News

Software provides a new view of all fields

Bayer technology makes digital farming easy to use and useful

By Lee Hart February 1, 2022

Blair Ford and Colette Thurston have been seeing their east-central Alberta farm from a whole new perspective over the past year and a half. Using an online program, they’ve got all 2,300 acres mapped, and throughout the growing season regularly receive satellite imagery showing variations in crop colour (a vegetative index) that can alert them […] Read more

File photo of a dicamba-damaged soybean plant. (Reuters)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News December 21, 2021

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is assessing whether dicamba herbicide can be sprayed safely on soybean and cotton plants genetically engineered to resist the chemical, without the procedure posing “unreasonable risks” to other crops, an agency official said Tuesday. Farmers and scientists for years have reported problems with dicamba drifting away […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Supreme Court asks U.S. government for views on Roundup case

By GFM Network News December 13, 2021

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden’s administration for its views on whether the justices should hear Bayer’s bid to dismiss claims by customers who contend its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, as the company seeks to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. Bayer in August filed a […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Bayer wins second straight verdict in a Roundup cancer case

Plaintiff's settlement demands unreasonable, company said

By GFM Network News December 9, 2021

Reuters — A California jury found that Bayer’s Roundup herbicide was not the cause of a woman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Bayer said on Thursday, delivering the chemical giant its second trial victory over claims the popular herbicide causes cancer. The jury in San Bernardino County found that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was not caused by her exposure […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. farm co-op CHS to pay members to enrol in Bayer carbon farming program

By GFM Network News November 3, 2021

Reuters – Agricultural seeds and chemicals supplier Bayer AG is expanding its carbon farming program to members of U.S. farm cooperative CHS Inc, boosting incentives for members to participate in the program, the companies said on Wednesday. The agreement will make it easier for CHS’s 75,000 farmer-members to enrol in Bayer’s Carbon Program, an early […] Read more

Bayer’s cross symbol hangs in a terminal at Frankfurt International Airport. (Typhoonski/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Bayer sees farmers pre-buying inputs as supply-chain snarls continue

By GFM Network News October 19, 2021

Chicago/Berlin | Reuters — U.S. farmers are pre-buying seeds and chemicals they need earlier than normal, in a bid to secure supplies for next spring amid sector-wide supply-chain problems, a top executive at German agricultural and pharmaceuticals firm Bayer said Tuesday. Bayer also estimates its average seed prices will go up about five per cent […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Bayer wins its first Roundup jury verdict in case of child’s cancer

By GFM Network News October 5, 2021

Reuters — Bayer won its first trial over claims its Roundup herbicide causes cancer after a California jury found that the herbicide was not a substantial cause of a child’s rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the company said on Tuesday. Destiny Clark alleged that her son Ezra developed Burkitt’s lymphoma after he was exposed to […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Tag Archives Bayer

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to toss Roundup suits

Bayer rolling out short corn variety tolerant of weather extremes

Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

Software provides a new view of all fields

U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims

Supreme Court asks U.S. government for views on Roundup case

Bayer wins second straight verdict in a Roundup cancer case

U.S. farm co-op CHS to pay members to enrol in Bayer carbon farming program

Bayer sees farmers pre-buying inputs as supply-chain snarls continue

Bayer wins its first Roundup jury verdict in case of child’s cancer

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