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Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Washington Post reports that Monsanto's dominance in industrial seed production has drawn the attention of anti-trust regulators in the US - U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto (via Cryptogon , who thinks no useful action will come of it). For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they’ve come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation’s...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Landec Corporation (Nasdaq:LNDC), today announced that it has modified its License, Supply and R&D Agreement with Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) (the “Modified Agreement”). Under the terms of the Modified Agreement, Monsanto will continue to have an exclusive license to use Landec’s Intellicoat® polymer technology for specific...
Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
As the U.S. Departments of Justice and Agriculture gear up for an unprecedented series of investigative workshops on agricultural competition and regulatory issues, a Des Moines law firm with deep political ties has signed on to represent agribusiness giant Monsanto.
The Street (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Cramer, on Wednesday's 'Stop Trading' segment, discusses how to profit on Afghanistan ... and whether it's right to do so.
Permaculture & Regenerative Design News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- It's all about the mix, Monsanto Company's (NYSE: MON) Brett Begemann, executive vice president of Seeds & Traits, plans to tell investors at Citi's Basic Materials Symposium in New York today. Key to the company's success will be the mix shift that will be created as farmers choose to upgrade to next-generation technologies, Begemann will...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Jim Delaney submits: Among the many sins Uncle Sam is despised for around the world, one we hear so little of these days is “genetic modification”. I’m not talking about the Hulk here, but more what the U.S. agriculture industry has done with those little things we put in the ground hoping that big things come out of the ground. In a sign that America and China might actually share...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they've come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents. Ninety-three percent of soybeans. Eighty percent of corn. The seeds represent "probably the most revolutionary event in grain crops over the last 30 years," said Geno...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Monsanto Falsely Advertised Roundup as Biodegradable FoodConsumer.org France's highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto had falsely advertised its herbicide as "biodegradable" and claimed it "left the soil"...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) will hold a webcast this Wednesday, Dec. 2, in conjunction with a presentation by Brett Begemann, executive vice president - Seeds & Traits, at Citi's Basic Materials Symposium. The webcast will begin at approximately 10:45 a.m. C.T. (Note: the time of this presentation and webcast has been updated since it was...
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they've come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents.
cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Oh sure. Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post Has anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies? I’d guess that the answer to that question would be even more ridiculous [...]...
War On You (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
11-29-2009 • United Press International WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) — Antitrust scrutiny of agriculture conglomerate Monsanto has high stakes for U.S. farmers and its competitors, analysts say. With Monsanto’s genetically altered corn and soybean seeds holding dominant positions in the U.S. markets, farmers have complained about their prices roughly doubling in the past...
And, yes, I DO take it personally (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents. Ninety-three percent of soybeans. Eighty percent of corn. The seeds represent "probably the most revolutionary event in grain crops over the last 30 years," said Geno Lowe, a Salisbury, Md., soybean farmer. But for farmers such as Lowe, prices of the Monsanto-patented...
