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

Activist investor reported building stake in Bayer, seeking breakup

Bayer up for 'constructive dialogue'

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 10, 2023

Reuters — Activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners has built a stake in Bayer AG and is pushing for a breakup of the German pharmaceutical and agriculture company, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing sources. U.K.-based Bluebell is also seeking an overhaul of Bayer’s corporate governance, the report added. A Bayer spokesperson, who declined to comment on […] Read more

Markets, Reuters

Bayer’s agriculture unit, consumer health drive outlook hike

By GFM Network News August 4, 2022

Frankfurt | Reuters – Agriculture and pharmaceuticals company Bayer BAYGn.DE on Thursday lifted its 2022 earnings guidance on strong demand from farmers for its seeds and crop chemicals and higher sales of consumer health products. Bayer is now targeting earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), adjusted for special items, of about 13 billion […] Read more

BASF’s dicamba production facility in Beaumont, Tex. (BASF.com)

Crops, Reuters

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

By GFM Network News July 7, 2022

Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a federal jury was wrongly told […] Read more

Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court again nixes Bayer challenge to weedkiller suits

By GFM Network News June 27, 2022

Washington | Reuters – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected another Bayer AG BAYGn.DE bid to dismiss litigation alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant tries to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and left in place a lower […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

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

Daily Network News

USDA attachés forecast some changes in China’s oilseeds, cereals

China urges hog producers to manage output, vows timely reserve adjustments

Farm Credit Canada offers aid to farmers, companies affected by Iran war price spikes

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Activist investor reported building stake in Bayer, seeking breakup

Bayer’s agriculture unit, consumer health drive outlook hike

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

U.S. Supreme Court again nixes Bayer challenge to weedkiller suits

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

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