Monsanto - Wikipedia
WEBThe Monsanto Company (/ mɒnˈsæntoʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate -based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major producer of genetically engineered crops.
Monsanto, the FDA, and genetically modified seeds
WEBMar 20, 2009 · Take genetically modified (GM) foods. The new documentary The World According to Monsanto takes an in-depth look at the billion dollar, multi-national corporation Monsanto and its push to spread its bio-engineered seeds.
Monsanto - Access to seeds
WEBMonsanto is an agricultural company that operates in two segments: seeds and genomics, and agricultural productivity, which includes agrochemicals. The seeds and genomics segment covers both field crop and vegetable seeds under multiple brands, with DEKALB maize and Seminis vegetables among the most prominent, as well as developing ...
Sowing the troubling seeds of Monsanto’s past, present and future - KCRW
WEBNov 5, 2021 · Monsanto, the chemical company with outsized influence and impact on our agricultural practices, is often in the news. Its genetically modified Roundup Ready crop seeds were introduced 25 years ago, and have changed how …
Bayer to Buy Monsanto, Creating a Massive Seeds and Pesticides …
WEBSep 14, 2016 · The Bayer-Monsanto deal will be the largest ever involving a German buyer, beating Daimler's tie-up with Chrysler in 1998, which valued the U.S. carmaker at more than $40 billion. It will also be...
Monsanto wins $7.7b lawsuit in Brazil - The Conversation
WEBOct 31, 2019 · Farmers worldwide say Monsanto’s policy of charging for every use of its genetically modified seeds violates their planting rights. But judges in these patent law cases aren’t so sure.
Attack of the Superweeds - The New York Times
WEBAug 18, 2021 · Realizing resistance would spread, Monsanto in the mid-2000s began developing a new generation of Roundup Ready seeds that could tolerate the application of a second herbicide, dicamba.
‘Seed Money’ Explores Monsanto’s Troubling Past and its …
WEBDec 20, 2021 · In his new book Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future, historian Bartow J. Elmore uncovers Monsanto’s record of producing not only Roundup, but also many of the chemicals that make up our modern world: the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in electrical equipment, the defoliants in home-garden herbicides and the Agent Orange used ...
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
WEBMonsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018―but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, …
Can We Trust Monsanto with Our Food? | Scientific American
WEBJul 25, 2013 · Farmers don't have to buy Monsanto seed, nor is anyone preventing them from saving and replanting any seed they want, except for patented seed they've signed an agreement not to save and plant.