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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 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 ...
A desolate world without GMO crops: Inside Monsanto’s demented spin campaign Fifty years after "Silent Spring" hit bookstores, Big Ag is still trying to win the public's hearts and minds ...
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 ...
HAMAR, N.D. -- Since Monsanto's introduction of genetically modified corn in the mid-'90s, it is now estimated that 88 percent of the corn and 94 percent of the soybeans grown in the U.S. are ...
Proponents of Monsanto's new cotton and soybean varieties, designed to tolerate spraying with multiple herbicides, say they're a much-needed weed-fighting tool. But others think the benefits will ...
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 ...
One sneaky provision on this year's agriculture appropriations docket would practically give biotech companies immunity from USDA regulation. Needless to say, activists are up in arms.
Monsanto Co. believes that some of its canola seed might contain genetically modified material that isn't federally approved. Angling to avoid a massive recall of food products, the company is ...