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# Monsanto No More: Agri-Chemical Giant's Name Dropped In Bayer Acquisition | NPR
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/monsanto-no-more-agri-chemical-giants-name-dropped-in-bayer-acquisition-npr/
- Published: 2018-06-04T16:18:59.000Z
- Updated: 2018-06-04T16:18:59.000Z
- Author: Investigate Midwest staff
- Tags: News Briefs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

> These days Monsanto is shorthand for, as NPR’s Dan Charles has put it, “lots of things that some people love to hate”: Genetically modified crops, which Monsanto invented. Seed patents, which Monsanto has fought to defend. Herbicides such as Monsanto’s Roundup, which protesters have sharply criticized for its possible [health risks](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/24/394912399/a-top-weedkiiller-probably-causes-cancer-should-we-be-scared?ref=investigatemidwest.org). Big agriculture in general, of which Monsanto was the reviled figurehead.  
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> And soon Monsanto will be no more.  
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> Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant and pesticide powerhouse, [announced in 2016](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/14/493896473/chemical-giant-bayer-agrees-to-buy-monsanto-for-66-billion?ref=investigatemidwest.org) it would be buying Monsanto in an all-cash deal for more than $60 billion.  
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> Now, as the merger approaches, Bayer has [confirmed](http://www.news.bayer.com/baynews/baynews.nsf/id/Bayer-plans-closing-of-Monsanto-acquisition-on-June-7?ref=investigatemidwest.org)what many suspected: In the merger, the politically charged name “Monsanto” will be disappearing.  
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> The combined company will be known simply as Bayer, while product names will remain the same.

Source: *[Monsanto No More: Agri-Chemical Giant’s Name Dropped In Bayer Acquisition : The Two-Way : NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/04/616772911/monsanto-no-more-agri-chemical-giants-name-dropped-in-bayer-acquisition?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=twitter)*