Bill Bader ran Missouri's largest peach farm until Monsanto's dicamba herbicide drifted in from neighboring fields and killed 30,000 of his trees. Discovery turned up 180 internal documents showing the company had projected exactly that kind of damage and sold the product anyway. A federal jury in the Eastern District of Missouri awarded Bader $265 million.
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