How Will Roundup Lawsuits Affect The Herbicide Industry?

What do agricultural workers and recreational gardeners have in common? Aside from a green thumb, they both run the risk of glyphosate exposure – chemicals in popular pesticides. Cited in legal proceedings as causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in California school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, the active ingredients in Monsanto herbicides allegedly lead to the diagnosis. With more lawsuits on the horizon, how will this play out for new owner Bayer’s stocks? By the end of the trial in August 2018, Johnson was awarded over $250 million in damages, but not everyone is so sure is glyphosate exposure is to blame. How could…...