This week kicked off what could be a three-week trial concerning a southeast Missouri peach grower, Bayer and BASF. The trial is at the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri Southeastern Division in Dunklin County, Mo. and centers on whether damage to a peach farm is from dicamba drift or natural causes including a spreading soil fungus.
 
While Bader Farms, plaintiff, and Bayer and BASF are under a gag order from the court, here’s what we know.
 
Bader Farms, the largest peach grower in the state, claims dicamba drifted into peach trees and caused severe damage to the orchard. Court documents state:
 
“The cause of this destruction to Plaintiff Bader Farmers’ and Plaintiff Baders’ crops is Defendants’ willful and negligent release of their dicamba products on the market. Defendants methodically engaged in a coordinated, systemic plan to release their defective products onto the market, thereby ensuring that non-DT [dicamba tolerant] crops would be destroyed.”
 
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