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Monsanto, one of the world’s largest producers of genetically modified seeds, is committed to innovation in agriculture, but critics say it should be more transparent. Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant joins “CBS This Morning” to address the ongoing debate over GMOs and questions surrounding their ...
First you genetically alter seeds that are resistant to your pesticide Roundup. Then you get farmers to alter how they manage their crops so that they buy into – and I mean this literally – the Roundup Ready system. Sure for a while those farmers had amazing yield fro...
Some farmers don’t fully understand that they aren’t supposed to save Monsanto’s seeds for next year’s planting. Others do, but ignore the stipulation rather than throw away a perfectly usable product. Still others say that they don’t use Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds, but ...
Monsanto Co hopes to roll out a new bioengineered, worm-resistant soybean seed for planting in Brazil next season, the firm's local president said, but a successful launch is tied to approval from top-buyer China. So-called Intacta RR2 Pro is the first genetically modified seed Monsanto has...
rural Indiana, did something that got him sued. He planted soybeans(大豆)sold as cattle feed. But Monsanto, the agricultural giant, insists it has a patent on the kind of genetically modified seeds Bowman used — and that the patent continues to all of the progeny(后代)of those seeds. ...
Percy Schmeiser, a farmer in Saskatchewan, is being pursued by Monsanto for damages and the profits from his fields because the company claims that the patent on its genetically modified seeds has been violated. (Marie Woolf, The Independent, March 14 1999)(Suzuki, Naked Ape to Superspecies)...
Syngenta is the world's largest crop chemical producer and Monsanto, known for its genetically-modified (GM) seed regime, makes Roundup, the popular glyphosate-based herbicide. In March, glyphosate wasclassifiedas“probably”carcinogenic to humans by a branch of the World Health Organization. ...
The USDA said in September that it believes the genetically modified wheat in Oregon was the result of an isolated incident and that there is no evidence of that wheat in commerce. The report said the government still doesn't know how the modified seeds got into the fields....
Consider the company’s seed business. Monsanto sells not only its own seeds, genetically modified and otherwise, but also licenses its genetic technology (such as traits that, say, give cotton plants resistance to weed killers) to rival seedmakers. Combined, those seeds now fill some 400 milli...