Monsanto is now owned by Bayer, the German chemical and pharmaceutical company, which fully acquired it in 2018 and folded it into Bayer’s crop science division.

Quick Scoop

  • Monsanto agreed to be acquired by Bayer in a deal valued at around 66 billion US dollars in 2016.
  • Regulators in the US and EU approved the acquisition in 2018, and the transaction officially closed on June 7, 2018.
  • After the deal, the Monsanto name was discontinued; its operations and products were integrated into Bayer’s agricultural (crop science) business.
  • Today, when people ask “who owns Monsanto,” the answer is that Monsanto no longer exists as an independent company and is part of Bayer.

In practice, all of Monsanto’s major seed and agrochemical lines now sit under the Bayer brand, even though many of the product names remain the same.

TL;DR: Monsanto doesn’t stand alone anymore—Bayer is the parent company that owns what used to be Monsanto’s business.

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