Importantly, under the system designed by Monsanto and BASF, only farmers buying Monsanto’s dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybean seeds would be protected from dicamba drift damage. Photograph: Randles & SplittgerberBoth Monsanto and BASF defended their products and their different roles in bringing the new dicamba crop system to market. Last month the first trial over dicamba damage ended with a $265m jury verdict against Monsanto and BASF. The Guardian asked Monsanto to comment on warnings in 2009 that its plan to develop a dicamba crop system could damage farms. “BASF and Monsanto are different entities and any effort to impute to BASF any misconduct by Monsanto is flatly wrong.

Source: The Guardian March 30, 2020 09:11 UTC