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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The debate on bio-tech foods and seeds wears on. Food production must double by 2050, and the only way to do that is with genetically modified foods. However, many critics say the foods only poison us and the earth. Reuters has this exhaustive profile on Monsanto that we found at the Independent On-line. Monsanto is a leading agriculture company that is spending lots of money on improving...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Monsanto Co. said Tuesday that it affirmed its outlook for the year. Monsanto sees full-year ongoing 2010 earnings guidance of $3.10 to $3.30 a share, or $2.85 to $3.11 a share including restructuring charges. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research estimate full-year earnings of $2.69 a share. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The positive mix lift expected as farmers choose to upgrade to next-generation technologies allows Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) to reconfirm its commitment to double its 2007 gross profit in 2012, Monsanto President and CEO Hugh Grant will tell investors today. Speaking at the company's biennial investor day, Grant will indicate that...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, had only months to live when he received a visit from an old friend, Rob Fraley, chief of technology for Monsanto Co.
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IOL (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Using biotechnology and genetic transfers, Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, hopes to create a corn variety that could grow well in dry conditions.
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The Street (Free subscription) | yesterday
Monsanto uses an investor conference Tuesday to confirm its near-term guidance, and its shares spike.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) today announced that they have entered into an agreement for Monsanto to acquire Pfizer's Chesterfield Village Research Center located in Chesterfield, Mo. Under the terms of the agreement, Monsanto will acquire the property from Pfizer for $435 million to be paid over time,...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, had only months to live when he received a visit from an old friend, Rob Fraley, chief of technology for Monsanto Co.
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In China, Monsanto announced a new research venture in Beijing, that will provide a platform for collaborations between the biotech giant and the Chinese scientific community on a host of genetic advances. The company had previously announced a partnership with Huazhong Agricultural University and last year announced an $84 million investment in China National Seed [...] Monsanto opens...
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Obama Puts Monsanto Lobbyist In Charge Of Food Safety Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. Organic Consumers Association [1] Friday, July 24, 2009 Genetically modified foods [2] are not safe [3]. The only reason they’re in our food supply is because government bureaucrats with ties to industry suppressed or manipulated scientific research and deprived consumers of the information they need to make...
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Yeh Hai Life - Celebrating India! (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The battle of the people’s will and perseverance versus corporate money and power continues. (Business Standard) Unfazed by the ongoing opposition to the commercialisation of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) brinjal, Monsanto India Limited (MIL), a subsidiary of US-based global biotech food major Monsanto Company, is planning to introduce genetically modified corn in the country by 2012-13....
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, on Tuesday said it is opening its first research center in China.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
ST. LOUIS -- Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, on Tuesday said it is opening its first research center in China.
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La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... concentration in the seed and the dairy industries, the NYT recently ran an editorial calling out Monsanto for dominating the seed industry : Following a decade of unchecked consolidation, it is time for the Justice Department to take a hard look at potentially anticompetitive behavior. A good place to start is with Monsanto, which is trying to block DuPont from adding its own genetic...
