Bayer to appeal $265 million U.S. damages award on dicamba weedkiller
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German agrochemicals group Bayer said on Sunday it would appeal a U.S. jury's $265 million (203 million pounds) damages award against it and BASF in favour of a Missouri farmer who said the company's dicamba herbicide had destroyed his peach orchards.The jury award, the first of more than 140 dicamba cases to come to trial, is separate to multi-billion-dollar litigation Bayer is trying to settle over the Roundup weedkiller made by Monsanto, the U.S. firm it took over for $63..