Will Chemical Damage Kill the Texas Wine Industry? | Schiffer Hicks Johnson
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On June 4, 2021, 57 Texas High Plains wine grape growers filed suit in Jefferson County District Court seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Bayer-Monsanto and BASF. The suit alleges that the chemical giants sold a defective genetically modified cotton seed system to Texas farmers, featuring a highly volatile weedkiller that moved miles off-target and crippled scores of vineyards across the state. The suit says that in recent years, volatilizing dicamba applied to genetically modified cotton crops has damaged up to...