
‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s moves to force dicamba …
Dec 4, 2020 · Monsanto and BASF have denied for years that dicamba is responsible for damage, blaming farmers making illegal applications, weather events and disease. The companies insist that when applied according to the label, dicamba stays on …
Federal Court Halts Spraying of Monsanto's Dicamba Pesticide …
Feb 6, 2024 · Today's ruling outlaws dicamba products sprayed over emerged soybeans and cotton crops that are genetically engineered to withstand the spray. Since 2017 the pesticide has caused drift damage to millions of acres of non-genetically engineered soybeans as well as to orchards, gardens, trees and other plants on a scale unprecedented in the ...
Special Report: The decisions behind Monsanto's weed-killer crisis
Nov 9, 2017 · Some farmers whose crops were harmed said in interviews that they bought Monsanto’s new dicamba-resistant seeds as a defense against drift from nearby spraying.
Federal Court Halts Spraying of Monsanto’s Dicamba Pesticide …
- In a sweeping victory for family farmers and dozens of endangered plants and animals, a federal court today revoked approval of the notoriously volatile, weed-killing pesticide dicamba.
Dicamba Lawsuit | Crop Damage Compensation for Farmers
Mar 3, 2025 · Farmers are filing Monsanto dicamba lawsuits to receive compensation for crop damage, even future crops, and to hold Monsanto accountable for unfair marketing and sales tactics. The first step to filing a dicamba lawsuit is contacting an experienced lawyer.
Dicamba, Monsanto, and the Dangers of Pesticide Drift: A Modern Farmer …
Aug 9, 2016 · For years we’ve heard about the ills of Monsanto’s genetically engineered Roundup Ready corn and soybeans, but what is dicamba and when did they start engineering crops to be resistant to it?
‘Buy It or Else’: How Monsanto and BASF Forced a Toxic Weed …
Dec 10, 2020 · Monsanto and BASF have denied for years that dicamba is responsible for damage, blaming farmers making illegal applications, weather events and disease. The companies insist that when applied...
Federal court halts use of dicamba across millions of acres of …
Feb 7, 2024 · A federal court cancelled dicamba's over-the-top use on soybeans and cotton, holding that EPA violated FIFRA's public input requirement prior to the approval. The court outlined the damage to growers that do not use over-the-top dicamba and suffered significant financial losses and repeatedly caused landscape-level damage.
$400 Million Settlement Reached with Monsanto in the Dicamba …
Jun 24, 2020 · Monsanto has agreed to pay up to $300 million to soybean producers and additional amounts to certain producers of other crops who suffered dicamba damage from dicamba sprayed over-the-top of dicamba tolerant soybeans or cotton from 2015 through 2020, per a global settlement agreement announced today by the Court-appointed Plaintiffs ...
Monsanto’s Weed Killer, Dicamba, Divides Farmers
Sep 21, 2017 · Farmers planted a new kind of seed on 25 million acres of soybean and cotton fields this year. Developed by Monsanto, the seeds, genetically modified to be resistant to a weed killer called...