Bayer, BASF Must Pay $250 Million in Dicamba Punitive Damages

(Bloomberg) -- Bayer AG and BASF SE must pay $250 million in punitive damages over damage their dicamba weedkiller did to a Missouri farmer’s peach orchards, in the first case over the herbicide to be decided by a jury. After ruling on Friday that the companies product did $15 million in damage to Bill Bader’s peach farm, jurors in federal court in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, followed up on Saturday by imposing the punishment damages over the companies’ mishandling of the weed ki