Patrick Stueve of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP in Kansas City has reached a $1.51 billion settlement with Syngenta in a genetically modified corn case, which is thought to be the largest agricultural litigation settlement in U.S. history.
Syngenta was being sued for selling a strain of corn seed called Viptera to U.S. farmers starting in 2011, before it was approved by China for corn imports. This resulted in U.S. corn farmers being effectively locked out of the China market until the corn strain was…
Patrick Stueve of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP in Kansas City has reached a $1.51 billion settlement with Syngenta in a genetically modified corn case, which is thought to be the largest agricultural litigation settlement in U.S. history.
Syngenta was being sued for selling a strain of corn seed called Viptera to U.S. farmers starting in 2011, before it was approved by China for corn imports. This resulted in U.S. corn farmers being effectively locked out of the China market until the corn strain was…