Steve Davies

Monsanto and Bayer can begin integrating their operations in a couple of months, after planned asset sales to BASF are completed.

Bayer has agreed to sell off approximately $9 billion in businesses and assets to BASF in order to gain approval of its purchase of Monsanto, the Justice Department announced today.

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved bills to fund the USDA, FDA and Army Corps of Engineers that steer clear of environmental issues addressed by the House’s versions of those same spending bills.

For the second time in five years, House Republicans failed to pass a farm bill, this time because of conservative demands for action on immigration and fierce Democratic opposition to the legislation's food stamp reforms.

Far-reaching restrictions on three neonicotinoid insecticides in the European Union have been upheld by the EU’s general court, prompting criticism from neonic manufacturers Syngenta and Bayer, and praise from environmental groups.

The “Waters of the U.S.” rule promulgated by the Obama administration would be repealed in one of two spending bills approved by the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday.