Pesticide manufacturer Monsanto was found liable by a California jury on Friday in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NIYZ3R6K50YN (Bloomberg) — DuPont Co.’s Pioneer seed unit took it on the chin from Monsanto Co. this year, and now salaried employees are taking a hit in the wallet. DuPont is cutting 2014 bonuses and delaying 2015 salary increases until July 1, according to an internal memo