Bayer paid $63 billion for US competitor Monsanto. Since the transaction, billions of euros have been burned and 67,000 lawsuits are still outstanding against the company. Bill Anderson is trying to curb the legal risk by the end of this year. The company is on the verge of finally breaking free.
On June 2, Secretary Kennedy toured a formula plant in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and a dairy farm. On the same day, he stood on the Gilbertson family dairy farm and praised the nutritional benefits of whole milk. In the last 7 months, there have been two outbreaks of infant botulism traced to powdered whole milk infant formula. The first, tied to ByHeart, sickened 48 babies across 17 states and hospitalized every one of them. The second, linked to Nara Organics, has hospitalized three more infants between 2 and 5 months old.
Food Tank hosted the 3rd Annual Chief Sustainability Officer and Food Systems Funders Summit at London Climate Action Week. The event brought together more than 200 leaders from food business, philanthropy, and the investment sector to talk about solutions to shape a sustainable future for food and agriculture systems. In Ireland, food brands are demonstrating a commitment to farmers and sustainability.
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President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Thursday aiming to modernize American agriculture and expand the market for regenerative farming. The president described the legislative actions as a cornerstone of his administration’s broader “Make America Healthy Again’ agenda.
Istanbul Caglayan court has found four of the six defendants guilty and imposed long prison sentences. The owner of the pest control company received an 18-year prison sentence and an employee of the company was sentenced to 12 years and 2 months. Servet, Çiğdem, Masal and Kadir from Hamburg died in Istanbul in mid-November. The cause of death was poisoning by an insecticide used in the hotel.
Smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia are likely to still be reeling from the fuel and fertilizer crisis caused by conflict in the Middle East when what forecasters expect to be a “super” El Niño arrives later this year. Livestock farming receives just 1 to 2% of climate finance dedicated to agriculture in low- and middle-income countries. The sector accounts for as much as 80% of agricultural GDP.
Half of Deschutes River was diverted to wealthy agricultural region that got more water than its plants could drink. Water-rich landowners grew mostly grass and pasture for landscaping and grazing while water-starved farmers downstream fellowed fields of commercial crops. Oregon's century-old law protects some water users at the expense of others. The Central Oregon Irrigation District diverts more water annually from the river than all other irrigation districts.
Joachim Rukwied criticizes prices for almost all products at this year's Farmers' Day in Freiburg. The association secures transfer payments and legitimizes maximum demands for a 500 billion euro agricultural budget. The aim should be to reduce farms' dependence on subsidies and create incentives to become more competitive.
A family of four from Hamburg were poisoned with insecticides while on vacation in Turkey. Four of the six defendants were found guilty and sentenced to long prison terms. The hotel operator was sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in prison, the owner of the pest control company received 18 years and his son got 12 years and 2 months. The receptionists were acquitted.