Insights and Stories on Monsanto

Monsanto’s Syngenta gambit seen hinging on sale of seed businesses

May. 14, 2015 at 5:56 pm CDT

London/Frankfurt | Reuters –– U.S. seeds giant Monsanto is trying to line up buyers for assets worth up to US$8 billion to appease competition authorities before making a fresh takeover approach for Swiss rival Syngenta, possibly within three weeks, industry sources said. Monsanto is expected to tap German chemicals group […]

Major Syngenta shareholders would back Monsanto bid, if higher

May. 8, 2015 at 2:16 pm CDT

By Simon Jessop

Monsanto, Syngenta hire advisors on possible takeover

May. 7, 2015 at 6:10 pm CDT

By Arno Schuetze Pamela Barbaglia

Monsanto reported offering again to buy Syngenta

Apr. 30, 2015 at 7:19 pm CDT

By Reuters

Argentine farmers say Monsanto soy contract breaks local law

Apr. 16, 2015 at 4:48 am CDT

By Maximilian Heath

Chinese citizens sue government over transparency on Roundup

Apr. 9, 2015 at 2:02 am CDT

Beijing | Reuters –– Three Chinese citizens are taking China’s Ministry of Agriculture to court in a bid to make public a toxicology report supporting the approval of Monsanto’s popular herbicide, Roundup, 27 years ago. The case, a rare example of a lawsuit by private citizens against the Chinese government, […]

By Dominique Patton

Scientist defends WHO group report linking glyphosate to cancer

Mar. 26, 2015 at 6:04 pm CDT

Reuters — A World Health Organization group’s controversial finding that the world’s most popular herbicide is “probably carcinogenic to humans” was based on a thorough scientific review and is a key marker in ongoing evaluations of the product, the scientist who led the study said Thursday. “There were several studies. […]

By Carey Gillam

Monsanto seeks retraction for report linking herbicide to cancer

Mar. 24, 2015 at 7:13 pm CDT

Reuters — Monsanto, maker of the world’s most widely used herbicide, Roundup, wants an international health organization to retract a report linking the product’s chief ingredient to cancer. The company said Tuesday that the report, issued on Friday by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), […]

By Carey Gillam

Monsanto rips cancer agency’s Roundup takedown

Mar. 20, 2015 at 8:02 pm CDT

The decision by an international group of cancer experts to classify the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide as “probably carcinogenic” has drawn fire from the product’s main maker. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a France-based arm of the World Health Organization, on Friday released its working group’s […]

By Staff

Monsanto settles more U.S. farmer claims over GM wheat

Mar. 18, 2015 at 4:42 pm CDT

The 2013 discovery of experimental Roundup Ready wheat plants in a farmer’s field in Oregon has led the crop’s developer to settle suits brought by wheat growers in seven U.S. states. Monsanto Co. said Wednesday it had reached a settlement agreement with growers in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana […]

By Staff

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