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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
ST. LOUIS, June 23, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Monsanto Company (NYSE: ) today announced it will issue the company's financial results for its 2009 third quarter on Wednesday, June 24, 2009, prior to market open.Monsanto will hold a conference call at 8:30 a.m. central time (9:30 a.m. eastern time) in conjunction with the announcement of its results. The call will focus on the company's results...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The bears bombarded Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) on Wednesday, after the agricultural issue said it expects 2009 earnings of around $4.40 per share, in the low end of its forecast, thanks
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The Stockmasters (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Dollar Tree's (NASDAQ:DLTR) profit spiked 39% and shares hit a new 52-week high , AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) earnings were overlooked by the General Motors (NYSE:GM) drama, and Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) cut their Q3 guidance. Let's get to it . read more
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Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
"Hope to "Save the World Through Genetic Engineering" Monsanto was quite happy to recruit young Kirk Azevedo to sell their genetically engineered cotton. Kirk had grown up on a California farm and had worked in several jobs monitoring and testing pesticides and herbicides. Kirk was bright, ambitious, handsome, and idealistic -- the perfect candidate to project the company's "Save...
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Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
US biotech giant Monsanto lost a court battle Tuesday against a move by Germany to outlaw a type of genetically modified maize manufactured by the firm seen as a danger to the environment. The administrative court in the central city of Brunswick denied the company an emergency injunction against the ban on MON 810 maize, which Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner introduced last month on environmental...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
As mutual-fund manager Keith Walter surveys the globe for investments, he centers on former high-flyers that have tumbled hard.
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La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
Mendocino County, CA broke new ground when it banned GMOs in its county. Since then other cities and counties in the U.S. and Canada have followed suit. As explained by Percy Schmeiser , the Canadian farmer whose case went to the Supreme Court when Monsanto's canola showed up in his fields, GMOs aren't just an environmental issue. They also foster suspicion among neighbors. He gives 3 reasons for this:...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announced the completion of a two-year collaborative project with Metro Academic Classical High School (Metro) through Contemporary ArtReach made possible by a second $10,000 grant from the Monsanto Fund. The Monsanto Fund also provided a $10,000 grant to support the first year of the project and additional funding was
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Germany has banned the cultivation of GM corn, claiming that MON 810 is dangerous for the environment. But that argument might not stand up in court and Berlin could face fines totalling millions of euros if American multinational Monsanto decides to challenge the prohibition on its seed. The sowing season may be just around the corner, but this year German farmers will not be planting gentically modified...
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Delta Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Monsanto has launched the Cotton Community (http://www.CottonCommunity.com), a new online Web site designed to encourage farmer-to-farmer exchanges on topics such as variety performance and agronomic practices.
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IPBiz (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
The Wall Street Journal writes of a suit by Monsanto against DuPont over DuPont's new seed that contains two genes that have been modified to make the plant tolerate herbicides. One is a DuPont gene that allows the soybean plant to tolerate exposure to glyphosate-based weedkiller as well as to another herbicide called acetolate synthase. The rub: a 2002 contract between DuPont and Monsanto that gave...
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Gossip Craze (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
vienna feeding mice with genetically engineered maize developed by the usbased monsanto corporation led to lower fertility and body weight according to a study conducted by the university ofveterinary medicine in vienna presented tuesdayin the study mice fed with the nk603 x mon810 sweetcorn variety over a period of 20 weeks showed a smaller litter size and lighter offspring than mice fed with nonengineered...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- DuPont on Tuesday claimed Monsanto is only interested in preserving its monopoly and stressed that it will "fight" the company's efforts to limit availability of competitive products. "Monsanto has a long history of using litigation and aggressive tactics to preserve their monopoly and attempt to intimidate customers, seed partners and competitors,"...
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
US biotech giant Monsanto lost a court battle Tuesday against a move by Germany to outlaw a type of genetically modified maize manufactured by the firm seen as a danger to the environment. The administrative court in the central city of Brunswick de ...
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