Bayer, BASF Fight to Keep Weedkiller on U.S. Farms

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Chemical makers Bayer and BASF are pushing to keep a controversial weedkiller on the market after a federal court in June blocked its use in U.S. soybean and cotton fields

Chemical makers Bayer AG and BASF SA are pushing to keep a controversial weedkiller on the market after a federal court in June blocked its use in U.S. soybean and cotton fields.

The companies are seeking approvals from the Environmental Protection Agency that would allow farmers to continue spraying dicamba, a herbicide that can kill hardy weeds but has been blamed for drifting off fields and damaging millions of acres of neighboring crops. Bayer and BASF are proposing that farmers mix the weedkiller with new chemical agents...

 

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At the bottom of this is Trump and his gang of thieves. Removing every safeguard that other Admin have put in place to protect Americans Food Supply.Trump has sold our right to clean water also. Sonny Perdue is responsible. His crazy corrupt Cousin Senator David Perdue helped.

Racist ruin this soil of this land with planting cotton & tobacco.

Of course they need to keep getting cancer patients to keep their pharma money rolling.

Any agricultural poison is dangerous for ecology ☠️

Tell America , we can boycott their products , maybe they would see , we don’t want to be killed by their chemicals !

Well that doesn't seem like the responsible decision, now does it?

It’s all about that glufosinate! Don’t get me started on how much I hate hairy fleabane and marestail and sedges! cheetahpro CortevaUS

There is absolutely no need for this chemical to continue its use other than the billions of dollars the sale of it makes bayer

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