Topic: Monsanto Company
Supreme Court questions ban of biotech alfalfa, paving way for biotech giant to sell the cropSupreme Court justices on Tuesday sharply questioned a lower court's decision that has prohibited biotech giant Monsanto Co. from selling genetically engineered alfalfa seeds, possibly paving the ...
COLUMBIA, Missouri (Reuters) - Robert Kremer, a U.S. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil, has spent two decades analyzing the rich dirt that yields billions of bushels of food each year and helps the United States retain its title as breadbasket ...
Calif. judge allows genetically engineered beet harvest; amounts to half nation's sugar supplyA federal judge on Tuesday said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups waited too long to ...
KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to a report issued Tuesday by health ...
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. Borlaug, who won ...
Seed maker Monsanto opening first research center in ChinaMonsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, on Tuesday said it is opening its first research center in China. The Monsanto Biotechnology Research Center in Beijing will boost Monsanto's ties with Chinese research institutions ...
Conference examines role of biotechnology in South Dakota's economySouth Dakota must overcome what university president James Abbott characterized as an inferiority complex if it's to produce college graduates who can grow a biotechnology industry that's already taken root. Abbott and others speaking ...
Monsanto, the agricultural giant known for developing biotech corn, said Tuesday it acquired WestBred, LLC, a company that specializes in genetic material for wheat. "The investment will bolster the future growth of Monsanto's seeds and traits platform and allow farmers to benefit ...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's biosafety regulator CTNBio has approved the use of Monsanto's Bollgard 2 genetically modified cotton seed, the company said on Thursday. The pest-resistant cotton variety must still be approved by Brazil's Agriculture Ministry before it can be planted ...
US biotech giant Monsanto said Wednesday it was considering legal action against Germany's decision to ban a type of genetically modified maize -- MON 810 -- manufactured by the firm. "Monsanto is examining all available options and reserves the right to take ...
