Bayer Offers To Buy St. Louis Based Monsanto

St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  German based drug company Bayer is making an offer to buy Monsanto. Leverkusen-based Bayer said in a short statement Thursday that its executives had met recently with their Monsanto counterparts “to privately discuss a negotiated acquisition of Monsanto Company.” Bayer, whose farm business produces seeds as well as compounds to kill…