A jury’s decision to award a southeast Missouri peach farm $265 million in damages — including $250 million in punitive damages — for its negligent design suit against Monsanto Company and BASF Corporation surprised even the farm’s attorneys. Billy Randles ...

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A jury on Saturday awarded $265 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other farms had severely damaged his trees — an award that could ...

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A jury on Saturday awarded $265 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other farms had severely damaged his trees — an award that could ...

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A federal judge has denied Monsanto’s motion to throw out a southeast Missouri peach farm’s claims that the company sold seeds without a safe corresponding herbicide, forcing other farmers to illegally spray weed-killing chemicals that drifted onto the peach farm. ...

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Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting via The AP For the third straight year, a volatile pesticide is damaging crops across the Midwest and South, despite federal and state efforts to lessen the drift. Since 2017, farmers have sprayed an increasing ...

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Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting via The AP For the third straight year, a volatile pesticide is damaging crops across the Midwest and South, despite federal and state efforts to lessen the drift. Since 2017, farmers have sprayed an increasing ...

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