Bayer to Appeal Jury Decision in Dicamba Case
February 17 2020 - 3:01AM
Dow Jones News
By Mauro Orru
Bayer AG said Monday that it would appeal a jury's verdict
against it and BASF SE in a crop-damage case which awarded $265
million to a Missouri peach farmer.
Peach farmer Bill Bader sued the two companies after he said
thousands of his fruit trees sustained damage in 2015 and 2016,
which he said was caused by a herbicide known as dicamba drifting
from neighboring cotton fields which had been planted with
dicamba-resistant biotech seeds developed by BASF and Bayer.
BASF and Monsanto Co., the biotech seed company Bayer acquired
in 2018 for $63 billion, developed dicamba-based herbicides and
biotech seeds to help make up for the waning weed-killing
effectiveness of herbicide Roundup.
"While we have great empathy for any farmer who suffers from
crop losses, in the case of Mr. Bader there was no competent
evidence presented which showed that Monsanto's products were
present on his farm and were responsible for his losses," Bayer
said.
Write to Mauro Orru at mauro.orru@wsj.com; @MauroOrru94
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February 17, 2020 02:46 ET (07:46 GMT)
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