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Fortune
Mia Osmonbekov

Farm groups saved Bayer in court over RoundUp cancer claims. Five days later, Bayer called for tariffs on the ingredient farmers rely on

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Bayer has picked a fight with some of its most important customers: U.S. farmers.

The German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company isn’t supplying them aspirin—they’re a lead company that develops agricultural technology that farmers rely on. Now the company is at the receiving end of ire from farm groups after asking the federal government to slap import duties on Chinese-made glyphosate, a key ingredient in weedkiller Roundup, because it’s allegedly being dumped in the U.S. and sold below “fair value.”

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