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Bayer's $62 billion bid for Monsanto

This week the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer made a $62 billion bid to buy Monsanto, the biotech business headquartered in Missouri. If the deal goes through, it would create the largest seed and pesticide business in the world.

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By Evan Kleiman • May 27, 2016 • 1 min read

This week the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer made a $62 billion bid to buy Monsanto, the biotech business headquartered in Missouri. If the deal goes through, it would create the largest seed and pesticide business in the world. To find out what this merger could mean for farmers and consumers, we called Luke Runyon in Fort Collins, Colorado. He's a reporter for Harvest Public Media and KUNC.

Music: ”Busta Rhymes - Call the Ambulance" (instrumental) produced by The Neptunes and Rick Ross featuring Future - No Games" (instrumental) produced by The J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League

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