Last September, Monsanto accepted an offer from Bayer to $57 billion to its shareholders and assume $9 billion in debt. Monsanto was founded in St. Louis in 1901 by John Francis Queeny.

A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer's Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs ...

FILE – This Aug. 31, 2015 file photo shows the Monsanto logo seen at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill. German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG says it has made a $62 billion offer to ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — U.S. seedmaker Monsanto agreed to a $66 billion buyout deal with Germany's Bayer to create a global agricultural and chemical giant.

The Monsanto logo is on display at the Farm Progress Show on Aug. 31, 2015, in Decatur, Illinois.Seth Perlman ~ Associated Press, file ...

LOUIS -- Monsanto Co. shareholders Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $57 billion merger with Bayer AG, a deal that would combine two of the world's biggest agricultural companies.

The Bayer-Monsanto deal will be the largest ever involving a German buyer, beating Daimler's tie-up with Chrysler in 1998, which valued the U.S. carmaker at more than $40 billion.

Bayer’s woes stem from its 2018 purchase of Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, for $63 billion in cash. Since the deal was announced in 2016, Bayer’s shares have plunged more than 60 percent.

German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG says it has made a $62 billion offer to buy U.S.-based crops and seeds specialist Monsanto Company. Bayer said Monday, May 23, 2016 that the all-cash ...