Bayer and BASF are facing a rash of new lawsuits over alleged injury from their dicamba herbicides, even as Bayer works to settle older dicamba injury claims and both companies appeal a recent jury verdict against them.
 
Arkansas-based honey producer, Coy's Honey Farm, filed a lawsuit against Bayer in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on May 25, claiming dicamba drift destroyed vegetation the farm's bees relied upon, reducing the farm's honey production and bee populations starting in 2018.
 
A week later, on June 4, a group of wine grape growers in the High Plains of Texas filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court in Texas against both Bayer and BASF, alleging 57 Texas vineyards suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to their grapes from dicamba volatilization and drift starting in 2016.
 
The new lawsuits come as Bayer and BASF are still fighting to overturn a $265-million jury verdict (since reduced to $75 million) against the companies, for dicamba injury to a peach orchard in Missouri. Both companies have appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, arguing the jury verdict should be reversed.
 
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