BASF is considering an offer to acquire the agriculture assets that Bayer is selling to win approval for merger with Monsanto, Markus Heldt, BASF’s global chief of crop protection, says in phone interview.
- Interest is driven by Bayer disposal of glufosinate and Liberty Link trait
- BASF studying how to build a seed platform, Heldt says
- BASF also has “high interest” in pesticide assets being sold to win clearance for merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont
- NOTE: Heldt is visiting Texas this week to open 50% expansion of dicamba production capacity