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When Monsanto Co. purchased Climate Corp. for $930 million last year, it got a San Francisco-based startup that crunches weather data to improve crop yields and design insurance. It also got David ...
Monsanto Co. said Thursday it will largely drop its bid to grow some of its genetically modified crops in Europe. The world’s largest seed-maker has nine pending applications with the European ...
Monsanto officials "have just dug their feet in," said Steve Smith, chairman of the Save Our Crops group. "I'm not here to be a salesman for Dow, but I'm here to stand up when people do the right ...
Monsanto has pretty much given up any hope (at least for now) of selling its genetically engineered seeds for corn, sugar beets, and other crops in Europe, where opposition to GMO food is ...
It has evolved to lawsuits, a labeling law and a public now deeply suspicious of or deeply confused about what this giant corporation does.
Under the headline "New bill would allow farmers to sue Monsanto if GMO crops invade their property," the article began: Farmers in Oregon could finally get a win in their fight against companies ...
Monsanto crops bred to thwart western corn rootworms, which love eating corn roots, are no longer are doing their job. The rootworms developed a resistance to the natural pesticide the crops ...
Marana farmer Burruel said his use of genetically modified seed to grow crops has been “nothing but a win for us.” He says Monsanto’s greenhouse-grown seeds will probably use less water than ...
Monsanto Co. on Friday threatened to pull its genetically-modified crop technology from India in protest of the government’s plans for further price controls over its products.
Monsanto's main business is the sale of genetically-modified crop seeds, but it is developing ways to increase crop yields without the use of engineered seed. The research and development ...