Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

Closing arguments in dicamba trial set for Friday

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Closing arguments are set for 9 a.m. Friday in the federal trial of a lawsuit alleging Monsanto and BASF intentionally caused widespread damage to farms in

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 12 Feb 2020

Closing arguments in dicamba trial set for Friday

BASF: Monsanto is a ‘fierce’ competitor, not a co-conspirator

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A retired BASF executive told a federal jury on Tuesday that the company never intended to enter into a “joint venture” with Monsanto over the dicamba-tolerant

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 11 Feb 2020

BASF: Monsanto is a ‘fierce’ competitor, not a co-conspirator

Monsanto’s defense: Fungal disease, not dicamba, to blame for peach farmer’s problems

For the past two weeks of a federal trial brought by Missouri’s largest peach farm against German agribusiness giants Bayer and BASF, the focus has been on the weed killer dicamba. On Monday, with the plaintiff wrapping up its case, lawyers representing Monsanto shifted the attention to everything b

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 10 Feb 2020

Monsanto’s defense: Fungal disease, not dicamba, to blame for peach farmer’s problems

Dicamba on trial: Peach farm one witness away from resting its case against Bayer, BASF

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - In July 2016, Bill Bader, frustrated by the second straight year of alleged dicamba damage to his peach trees, got out his invoice book and hand wrote

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 7 Feb 2020

Dicamba on trial: Peach farm one witness away from resting its case against Bayer, BASF

Dicamba on trial: Weed scientist: With widespread pollution, ‘no way’ to know where drift that harmed peaches came from

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The air in parts of the Midwest and South has become so contaminated with the weed killer dicamba that it has caused widespread damage to soybeans and

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 6 Feb 2020

Dicamba on trial: Weed scientist: With widespread pollution, ‘no way’ to know where drift that harmed peaches came from

In trial against Bayer and BASF, Missouri peach farmer testifies about alleged dicamba damage

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - In June 2018, Bill Bader’s grandson wanted a ripe peach to eat, so the two got in an all-terrain vehicle and drove to the area

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 6 Feb 2020

In trial against Bayer and BASF, Missouri peach farmer testifies about alleged dicamba damage

Dicamba on trial: Peach farmer takes the stand in lawsuit against Bayer, BASF

Since 1970, Bill Bader has worked on peach farms in Dunklin County, Missouri, just north of the Arkansas border. Bader started picking peaches at age 13, and in 1988, he

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 4 Feb 2020

Dicamba on trial: Peach farmer takes the stand in lawsuit against Bayer, BASF

Dicamba on trial: Despite assurances to farmers, BASF told pesticide applicators dicamba may cause soybean damage

While BASF was telling farmers there would be no yield impacts from dicamba drift in 2017, the company was privately telling pesticide applicators that any drift they caused could cause

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 3 Feb 2020

Dicamba on trial: Despite assurances to farmers, BASF told pesticide applicators dicamba may cause soybean damage

Dicamba on trial: Monsanto officials testified dicamba may drift, but not enough to harm crops

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo - If farmers follow the label, small amounts of dicamba may move off of the crops where they are applied, but there is “no way” that movement could

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 31 Jan 2020

Dicamba on trial: Monsanto officials testified dicamba may drift, but not enough to harm crops

Dicamba on trial: Monsanto officials limited testing on its own plots

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — In February 2015, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considering whether to approve a new Monsanto weed killer anticipated to be sprayed on tens of millions

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 31 Jan 2020

Dicamba on trial: Monsanto officials limited testing on its own plots

Monsanto executive: ‘We anticipated (drift) might happen’

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Monsanto expected thousands of farmers to complain about its new weed killer drifting and harming their crops when it launched the new dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 29 Jan 2020

Monsanto executive: ‘We anticipated (drift) might happen’

Reporter's Notebook: Jury pool included those with dicamba complaints

Editor's note: German agribusiness companies Bayer and BASF face allegations in a civil lawsuit that they created circumstances that damaged millions of acres of crops by the weed

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 28 Jan 2020

Closing arguments in dicamba trial set for Friday

BASF: Monsanto is a ‘fierce’ competitor, not a co-conspirator

Monsanto’s defense: Fungal disease, not dicamba, to blame for peach farmer’s problems

Dicamba on trial: Peach farm one witness away from resting its case against Bayer, BASF

Dicamba on trial: Weed scientist: With widespread pollution, ‘no way’ to know where drift that harmed peaches came from

In trial against Bayer and BASF, Missouri peach farmer testifies about alleged dicamba damage

Dicamba on trial: Peach farmer takes the stand in lawsuit against Bayer, BASF

Dicamba on trial: Despite assurances to farmers, BASF told pesticide applicators dicamba may cause soybean damage

Dicamba on trial: Monsanto officials testified dicamba may drift, but not enough to harm crops

Dicamba on trial: Monsanto officials limited testing on its own plots

Monsanto executive: ‘We anticipated (drift) might happen’

Reporter's Notebook: Jury pool included those with dicamba complaints

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