Bayer CropScience

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Bayer CropScience AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 2002
resolution 2015
Seat Monheim am Rhein GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Liam Condon
Number of employees 22,400 (2013)
sales 8.819 billion euros (2013)
Branch Plant protection products , biotechnology
Website www.cropscience.bayer.com

The Bayer CropScience AG ( BCS ) was an independent subsidiary of Bayer AG , headquartered in Monheim am Rhein . As part of the restructuring of Bayer AG, the subgroup was formed in October 2002 from the former crop protection division of Bayer AG and the Aventis CropScience division, which was taken over from the Aventis Group in 2001. Important German production sites were in Dormagen , the Höchst Industrial Park ( Frankfurt am Main ) and the Knapsack Chemical Park ( Hürth ). The headquarters for the European business of BCS ( EMEA ) was in Lyon, France . As of January 1, 2016, Bayer Cropscience, like the other subgroups, was gradually dissolved as part of the new corporate strategy "New Bayer" and integrated into the overall group as a business area.

Bayer CropScience was an agrochemical company, consisted of around 90 companies worldwide and was operationally divided into three major areas:

  • Crop Protection (CP)
  • Environmental Science (ES)
  • Bio Science (BS)

With 80.4 percent of the company's total sales, the Crop Protection division represented the largest sub-division of the AG. This business field comprised chemical crop protection in the agricultural sector . Environmental science encompassed all non-agricultural applications. These included, for example, lawn care products and various insect control agents. Bio Science offered solutions in the field of biotechnology and plant breeding.

In September 2011, the then CEO Sandra Peterson announced that she would double spending on green genetic engineering to EUR 400 million per year by 2015 . Overall, spending on research and development in the seed sector should increase by 20% to 850 million per year. In traditional plant protection, they wanted to dispose of older products, including by 2012 all insecticides that the WHO rated as particularly harmful should be removed from the program.

Divisions

AgraQuest

In 2012 Bayer CropScience took over AgraQuest, a specialist in biological crop protection founded in 1995, for 425 million US dollars (around 340 million euros) . The company was based in Davis, California .

About their products included various fungicides on the basis of Bacillus subtilis (strain QST 713) and consisting of terpenes existing insecticide Requiem .

Works

Europe

  • Lyon (headquarters)

North America

Asia

Products and consequences

Clothianidin

At the end of April and beginning of May 2008, bees died out in some regions in southwest Germany, causing some 11,000 colonies to be severely damaged. The active ingredient clothianidin , which was contained in seed dressings from Bayer CropScience, was identified as the cause. It had found its way into neighboring crops due to the drift of seed dust during sowing. The authorities then suspended the approval of insecticides containing neonicotinoids and decreed that a higher quality of dressing and a reduction in drift during sowing must be ensured.

Mixtures with transgenic rice

In 2006, Bayer CropScience reported that traces of a transgenic rice variety that was in the test phase and not yet approved had entered the food and feed chain in the USA. According to the USDA and FDA, this has not created any health or environmental risks. According to the European Commission , traces of the rice variety were found in rice imports from the USA in September 2006 . In March 2011, Bayer CropScience was sentenced by a court in Stuttgart, Arkansas, to pay Riceland Foods $ 136.8 million in damages because Riceland Foods ' export of conventional rice had to be stopped due to EU regulations.

Lobbying

Joachim Rukwied , President of the German Farmers' Association, sits on the Supervisory Board of Bayer Crop Science .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bayer.de: Profile Bayer CropScience
  2. ↑ Key figures ( Memento from April 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Key figures Bayer CropScience, 2010.
  4. ↑ Bayer relies on green genetic engineering. Top agrar online, September 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ Reuters: Bayer CropScience buys AgraQuest for $ 425 mln (English)
  6. ↑ AgraQuest and Bayer CropScience expand partnership for home and garden products in key European markets
  7. ↑ Our Locations
  8. ↑ Bayer should pay for dead bees taz , Berlin June 19, 2008.
  9. ↑ JKI, 57th German Plant Protection Conference, September 6-9, 2010, Humboldt University Berlin. ( Memento from September 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.5 MB).
  10. ^ Statement by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Regarding Genetically Engineered Rice. USDA, 2006 ( Memento of April 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ EU sounds the alarm. ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ORF , Vienna September 12, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orf.at
  12. ↑ Jan Cottingham: Riceland Awarded $ 136.8 Million In Suit Against Bayer CropScience. March 19, 2011, accessed March 21, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, [1]

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