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Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

Company provides heads-up on 'force majeure event'

No one is yet using the word ‘shortage’ but farmers may need to get ready for less Roundup temporarily, following a “force majeure” event at a plant supplying an ingredient in the recipe for glyphosate. Bayer, the chemical company whose Roundup brand remains the best known of the glyphosate herbicides, reported as much in an

Before Roundup first hit the market in the early 1970s, farmers only had two options for weed control — cultivation (six or seven times prior to seeding, in some cases) or expensive selective herbicides that left residues. The former wasn’t just causing soil loss but also eroding the bottom line.

A world without Roundup is a ‘real threat,’ says New Zealand farmer

But reduced use is an option and can thwart both proposed bans and resistance

Glacier FarmMedia – Glyphosate changed farming across the globe — but if farmers don’t want to lose the ‘chemical of the century’ entirely, they’d better use it less often. That’s the view of a seed grower from New Zealand who made farming without glyphosate the focus of his Nuffield research. It’s hard to overstate the



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Bayer wins second straight verdict in a Roundup cancer case

Plaintiff's settlement demands unreasonable, company said

Reuters — A California jury found that Bayer’s Roundup herbicide was not the cause of a woman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Bayer said on Thursday, delivering the chemical giant its second trial victory over claims the popular herbicide causes cancer. The jury in San Bernardino County found that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was not caused by her exposure





Letters: Glyphosate review warranted

As noted in the article Glyphosate: treating science like a buffet (Manitoba Co-operator, Aug. 19), public pressure has caused Health Canada to delay a proposed increase to the amount of glyphosate allowed on legumes as a residue. The authors of the article then go on to suggest that the idea of glyphosate being dangerous (other

The inconvenient truth about glyphosate is that it’s not harmful, unless used irresponsibly, of course.

Comment: Glyphosate. Treating science like a buffet

Health Canada did the agriculture sector no favours with its process

Canadians had until July 20 to comment on the federal government’s proposal to increase the amount of glyphosate herbicide residue allowed on legumes. Now, due to some deserved public pressure, Health Canada is delaying the entire process. The debate on glyphosate in Canada and around the world is populist, chaotic, political, and simply unsettling. Many



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U.S. judge rejects Roundup settlement plan as ‘unreasonable’

Proposal would cover suits over future illnesses

Reuters — A U.S. judge rejected Bayer’s US$2 billion class action proposal to resolve future lawsuits alleging its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, saying in a Wednesday order that parts of the plan were “clearly unreasonable.” U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the proposal “would accomplish a lot for Monsanto,” which Bayer