More than 2,000 farmers are expected to file dicamba-damage lawsuits, says law firm

More than 2,000 U.S. farmers are likely to be included in dicamba-damage lawsuits, say attorneys for Peiffer Wolf Carr & Kane, a national law firm that’s representing farmers in dicamba-damage lawsuits. The increase in dicamba-damage lawsuits has been triggered by a Missouri jury awarding $265 million in compensatory and punitive damages to Bader Farms, a Campbell, Missouri, peach farm, says Joe Peiffer, managing partner for Peiffer Wolf Carr & Kane. Bayer markets Xtendimax herbicide, while BASF markets Engenia herbicide. Companies say both dicamba formulations – specifically labeled for use on dicamba-tolerant crops like soybeans since 2017 – are lower in volatility than older dicamba formulations. Bayer said in a statement that the Bader Farms case is unique and unprecedented and that claims for damages on lost profits were unsupported by any direct scientific evidence that dicamba was present in its orchards. “We are here today to tell you that is wrong,” says Joe Peiffer, managing partner for Peiffer, Wolf, Carr & Kane. “The crop damage and increasing complaints from farmers forecast a much bigger problem than Monsanto (bought by Bayer in 2018), Bayer, and BASF want to admit.”...MORE