This summer, agrochemical, biotechnology and seed giant Monsanto dropped its bid to acquire its Switzerland-based competitor, Syngenta. Initial merger serenades were sternly rebuffed by Syngenta, ...

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the industrial agriculture and multinational food and seed ...

Monsanto, the world's largest seed company won a one billion dollars victory over its arch rival in a lawsuit concerning patents in the agricultural seed market.

In an unanimous decision, the Court held that a soybean farmer cannot reproduce agri-giant Monsanto’s patented, genetically modified seeds through planting and harvesting without the company’s ...

Monsanto introduced it in 1974, and its use exploded after Monsanto introduced “Roundup-ready” seeds — engineered to resist glyphosate — in 1996. Since then, Monsanto has gained billions more dollars ...

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims Monsanto plotted to force America’s black farmers into buying Roundup-resistant seeds, which forced them to rely on heavier and heavier concentrations of the ...

In the 2019 case related to Penncap-M, Monsanto pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense of unlawfully spraying the banned pesticide on corn seed and research crops at its Valley Farm facility on ...

For the first time in the history of the seed corn industry, two companies control 71% of sales. “A few acquisitions by DuPont this spring puts them neck and neck with Monsanto with regard to ...

Those parcels made up two-thirds of Monsanto’s land in Hawaii. The company, which grows mostly seed corn and some soybeans, said the designation would not change its day-to-day farming ...

Tests showed they contained some of the patented seed traits and Monsanto sued the importers for infringement. A court in The Hague sought the EU tribunal’s guidance on the case in 2008.