Bayer adds strawberries to its fruit and vegetable portfolio

22-Sep-2023 - Bayer adds strawberries to its leading fruit and vegetable business. With the acquisition of the strawberry business of NIAB of the United Kingdom, Bayer is focusing on professional, protected strawberry cultivation in this area to meet growing consumer and retail demand for high-quality ...

Bayer wants to make it easier for farmers to access the market for certified organic products with organic vegetable seeds

First products focusing on the most important crops for greenhouses: tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers

23-Sep-2021 - Bayer will expand its range of vegetable seeds to include organically produced seeds under the new "Vegetables by Bayer" umbrella. The launch will focus on certified organic production of three major crops for the greenhouse market: Tomatoes, Peppers and Cucumbers. Tomato rootstocks will follow ...

Glyphosate: Bayer refers to fewer cancer studies than assumed

03-Dec-2018 - Is the weedkiller glyphosate carcinogenic? For a long time, the agricultural chemicals group Bayer has relied on 800 scientific studies to prove that glyphosate "can be safely used and is not carcinogenic. This was also reported by the German Press Agency. As the "tageszeitung" writes, however, ...

Bayer selling $9B in ag business ahead of Monsanto merger

31-May-2018 - German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG has agreed to the U.S. government's demand that it sell about $9 billion in agriculture businesses as condition for acquiring Monsanto Co., a U.S. seed and weed-killer maker. Antitrust regulators at the Justice Department say it's the biggest divestiture ever ...

KWS renews offer for Bayer AG's vegetable seed business

30-May-2018 - Following publication on May 25 of the final commitments given by Bayer to the EU Commission, KWS SAAT SE yesterday (Monday, May 28,2018) issued a non-binding offer to Bayer AG for its global vegetable seed business, which operates primarily under the name Nunhems. KWS is thus renewing a ...

BASF in exclusive talks with Bayer to acquire vegetable seeds business

07-Mar-2018 - BASF is in exclusive talks to acquire Bayer’s entire vegetable seeds business, operating under the global trademark Nunhems®. Bayer intends to divest this business in the context of its planned acquisition of Monsanto. Definitive agreements have not been concluded. With this transaction, BASF ...

Monsanto Says Bayer's $62 Bln Offer 'financially Inadequate', But Open To Talks

25-May-2016 - Monsanto Co. (MON) said Tuesday that its board views the Bayer AG (BAYZF.PK, BAYRY.PK, BYR.L) proposal as incomplete and financially inadequate, but is open to continued and constructive conversations to assess whether a transaction in the best interest of Monsanto shareowners can be ...