Patrick Thomas
As Trump’s tariff war with China oscillates, America’s soybean farmers are trapped in a vise
Just days after the Trump administration pledged a $20 billion loan to backstop the finances of Argentina under libertarian President ...
‘Blood bath’: American soybean farmers are panicking as trade war with China escalates
China hasn’t booked any U.S. soybean purchases in months, making the oilseed a potent weapon in Beijing’s trade fight with ...
Bayer ponders bankruptcy option in renewed push to resolve 60,000 pending glyphosate suits
Bayer is making another push to resolve lawsuits linking the popular weedkiller Roundup to cancer, while exploring a bankruptcy filing ...
Reshuffling the deck: How agro-chemical suppliers are repositioning weed-killing products
There is a new king of soybeans on the American farm—for now. ...
Winning streak: After losing first 3 glyphosate-cancer cases, here’s how Bayer has convinced juries in 5 recent cases that the weedkiller is not harmful to humans
Bayer is on a winning streak as it battles the remaining cases targeting its Roundup weedkiller, a change after several ...
Should an AI chatbot robot have rights? A now-suspended Google engineer thinks so
Google suspended an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he ...