"With billions of dollars at stake, Bayer has gone on the offensive.

Billboards along major highways. A social media offensive. 

Tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations in Missouri alone.

And a major push in at least 11 states to change pesticide labeling laws.

Such efforts by the agricultural biotech company and others are tied to a chemical that, for years, was found on garage shelves throughout America and is still being applied to commercially-grown crops throughout the country.

The battle over Roundup and glyphosate, the controversial chemical it contains, is a case study in how regulation, politics and big business are intertwined in the agricultural industry."

Mary McCue Bell reports for Investigate Midwest August 18, 2025. Unyielding is a University of Missouri School of Journalism project for Investigate Midwest. [2]