The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing Thursday to consider the nomination of Katherine Tai to be President Joe Biden’s U.S. Trade Representative and point person on the future of trade relations with China.

BASF has completed its acquisition of most of the businesses and assets from Bayer that the company was required to divest as part of its purchase of Monsanto.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2017 – Bayer has agreed to sell significant parts of its seed and non-selective herbicide businesses to BASF for nearly $7 billion, part of Bayer’s plans to divest the assets as it prepares to acquire Monsanto.

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2017 - Dow AgroSciences is on the hook for $455 million in payments to Bayer CropScience after a federal appeals court upheld a patent infringement award involving a gene used in glufosinate-tolerant seed.