German firms Bayer and BASF fight USD265m US fine over weedkiller
18.02.2020
MOSCOW (MRC) -- German chemical giant Bayer is to appeal against a Missouri court's award of USD265m (203m) to a US peach grower who blamed a herbicide for crop damage, said BBC. Farmer Bill Bader sued Bayer and BASF, alleging that dicamba weedkiller drifted onto his orchard from nearby fields, destroying them. It is the first ruling in some 140 US cases against dicamba, a herbicide blame