Donald Trump's executive order saves glyphosate production as Bayer weighs exit
It’s a U-turn for Trump's administration, in which health secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior’s Make America Healthy Again movement had branded glyphosate, better known as Roundup, as a carcinogen. File picture
Donald Trump has come to the aid of glyphosate manufacturer Bayer, and millions of farmers who use the herbicide, which many know better by the Roundup trade name.
The company had considered shutting its factories, which make about 40% of the global supply of glyphosate. But that’s no longer likely, after the US president’s executive order promoting the production of glyphosate.
