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Brent Henderson harvests soybeans on his farm near
Weona, Ark., in 2017. That crop showed symptoms of dicamba exposure.
Henderson switched to Xtend soybeans the following year, he says, as
"insurance" against future damage.
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The biggest, most valuable new technology on Midwestern farms
these days is a new family of soybean seeds. But some farmers say
they're buying these seeds partly out of fear.
A new lawsuit
claims that the company Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, violated antitrust
laws when it introduced the seeds. Bayer is asking the court to dismiss
the complaint.
The seeds go by the trade name
Xtend. They're worth an estimated billion dollars a year to Bayer.
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A New Lawsuit Claims Bayer/Monsanto Violated Antitrust Laws With Xtend Dicumba Resistant Soybeans