Monsanto Company

Monsanto Company

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Monsanto provides agricultural products for farmers. The company provides seeds (including GM-modified starting materials) as well as crop protectants, such as the herbicide round-up.

In the past, Monsanto offered also Newleaf GMO potatoes, but this is no longer the case.

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Syngenta offers a range of potato crop protection solutions
May 14, 2015

Syngenta response on Monsanto acquisition offer

Syngenta reacts to the acquisition offer of Monsanto reported in the media in this response dated May 8, 2015
Switzerland
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The [C88] potato has become so popular that in some regions, ‘Cooperation 88’ has actually become synonymous with, or even replaced, the Chinese word for potato
June 30, 2014

'Open Source' seed released to nurture patent-free food

An ‘open-source’ seed initiative has released 36 varieties of 14 food crops, which the project’s leaders say could help poor farmers get access to better quality seeds.
Peru
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The Climate Corporation
October 02, 2013

Monsanto buys Climate Corporation

Biotech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion.
United States
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Walter De Jong in field
July 24, 2013

The hard question: Pesticides or GMO's

De Jong, a potato breeder and geneticist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, hopes that at least one of the plants will yield a best seller, but it’s far more likely that they’ll amount to compost.
United States
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