Monsanto produced genetically modified organizisms

The only problem is that we can't plant Merit sweet corn anymore. In the '90s Monsanto acquired Asgrow, and they have since discontinued the sale of Merit seed. Merit is a non-GMO hybrid. There are other non-GMO hybrids available, but they don't perform as well in north Mississippi. My family now has to ...

Schmeiser's battle with Monsanto became known worldwide and he garnered a lot of support from critics of GMO technology. It was also ... Monsanto later decided not to proceed with commercialization, partly due to the customer concerns but also because of farmers' concerns about controlling volunteers.

A proposed merger between Bayer AG and Monsanto passed a United States regulatory hurdle despite opposition from various food and farm groups. ... to acquire non-genetically modified seeds,” which will stall U.S. agriculture from eliminating GMO-chemicals from its food system, EcoWatch reported.

Because it will make it harder for farmers to acquire non-genetically modified seeds to plant, it "makes it harder for agriculture to get off the GMO-chemical ... A recent poll found that nearly 94 percent of farmers expressed concern that a Bayer-Monsanto merger would have a negative impact on independent farmers and their ...

In a move aimed at securing its future, Monsanto has invested $125 million in a gene-editing startup called Pairwise. The alliance could tee up Monsanto, long known for its controversial dealings with farmers and its role in popularizing genetically modified organisms, to introduce some of the first produce ...

You see, for the last four years I've been embedded in a Swiss research group that specializes in creating genetically modified organisms, or GMOs (scientists prefer to use the terms genetic engineered organisms or transgenics rather than GMO). And no, we are not funded by Monsanto, and our GMOs are ...

The Bayer-Monsanto deal has been strongly criticized by environmentalists and farming groups. “This is a marriage made in hell. The Commission ignored a million people who called on them to block this deal, and caved in to lobbying to create a mega-corporation which will dominate our food supply,” ...

(CN) – Reviving a challenge to Monsanto's marketing of food that contains genetically modified organisms, Europe's highest court ruled Wednesday that an environmental review is a suitable way to address health concerns. The German nongovernmental organization TestBioTech brought the review ...

In an attempt to offer some respite to cotton farmers battered by repeated pest attacks and crop losses, the centre is likely to slash the price of genetically modified Bt cotton seeds as well as trait fees payable by domestic seed companies to technology developers. The maximum sale price of a Bt cotton ...

[W]hile the government wanted to keep prices low for Indian farmers, as [the South Asia Biotechnology Centre] points out, the illegal HT [(herbicide-tolerant) cotton] seeds are selling at between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,500 per pack—if you take the mid-point of this, the seeds are selling at 1.7 times Monsanto's ...

Burkina Faso - Africa's leading cotton grower in recent years - became a showcase for GM cotton technology on the continent when it introduced varieties containing Monsanto's Bollgard II trait in 2008. However, in 2016 it abandoned the Monsanto varieties, complaining they led to a drop in cotton fiber ...

Agric firm Monsanto is assuring problems that have emerged with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) cotton seeds in Burkina Faso leading to its withdrawal will not be repeated in other parts of Africa. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2016 suspended field trials of GMO cotton ...

American agricultural firm Monsanto says it is still open to the possibility of resuming work on GMO crops in Ghana after withdrawing from the country two years ago. But the company says it will only do that when it is sure the right business environment has been created to allow it operate successfully in the ...

“It is unfortunate that today's order further erodes trait fees (royalties), which are now less than 0.5 percent of the cost of cultivation, while the technology continues to provide value to farmers across India,” a spokesman for Monsanto's Indian joint venture, Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB), was quoted as ...