Articles Tagged with ''bayer''

An effort by the Environmental Working Group seeks to eliminate the use of glyphosate in oat production, but farm and food industry groups are defending growers’ use of the herbicide and accusing EWG of trying to scare consumers away from oat products without justification.

Bayer announced a new joint venture and collaboration on Tuesday with Arvinas with the goals of improving plant and human health.

Pesticide companies and the Center for Food Safety are pleased with a legal settlement that involves canceling 12 neonicotinoid registrations and evaluating the effects of two neonics on endangered species.

Key staffers are moving on up and around Capitol Hill.

California staffers move up and around Capitol Hill and Bayer adds four former democratic staffers to its lobbying team.

Bayer is not backing down from its defense of glyphosate following a jury’s award of more than $2 billion to a California couple who allege their use of Roundup over about 30 years caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Democratic presidential candidates are trying to make agribusiness consolidation into a campaign issue, and some Republicans as well as farmers also worry that recent mergers are increasingly making it harder for growers to make a profit.

The Environmental Protection Agency says glyphosate is not “likely” a human carcinogen.