Aug 6 (Reuters) - Bayer on Wednesday said it

would be forced to stop its U.S. production of widely-used

farming weedkiller glyphosate unless regulatory or legal changes

are made to stave of litigation that has been weighing on the

German company.

"Unless something changes, we are going to have to stop

producing glyphosate ... we have to find a solution," CEO Bill

Anderson said in a media call after the release of detailed

quarterly results.

The company has previously replaced glyphosate in U.S.

consumer products with different weed-killing substances and it

earlier this year threatened to withdraw Roundup from the U.S.

agriculture markets if lawmakers or courts cannot provide more

legal relief.