Sunday, October 7, 2012

Monsanto

  • Monsanto Seed Patent Case Gets US Supreme Court Review

    The case centers on a technology that has helped make Monsanto the world's largest seed company, with $13.5 billion in annual revenue, while provoking fights with opponents of genetically modified food and some farmers.

    www.businessweek.com

  • Long-Term Monsanto Investors Wait For A Significant Pullback

    Monsanto reported fourth-quarter revenues of $2.11 billion, down 6.1% on the year. Revenues for the final quarter came in below analysts' consensus of $2.23 billion.

    seekingalpha.com

  • Massachusetts Schools Sue Monsanto For PCB Contamination: click here

    October 7, 2012 Permalink Tweet: Massachusetts Schools Sue Monsanto For PCB Contamination: click here. Submitted by Bill Berndtson.

    www.opednews.com

  • Are Monsanto's Fingerprints on This Op-Ed Signed by a UC Davis Professor?

    As I recently explained, University of California at Davis agriculture researchers are heavily influenced by the funding they receive from Monsanto and other big biotech players. This conflict of interest explains in part why we are seeing several UC ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Bitter Seeds: Monsanto's Legacy—Debt and Mass Suicides

    Several years ago, I sat in a San Francisco screening room with other local film critics to watch China Blue, the second documentary in Micha X. Peled's ambitious Globalization Trilogy.

    www.berkeleydailyplanet.com

  • French GMO Research Finds Monsanto Corn Causes Cancer America Should ...

    For two years, these rats were fed a diet of 33% genetically modified corn developed by Monsanto. The results are horrific.

    www.policymic.com

  • EU panel says Caen study of Monsanto GM corn inadequate

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A French study linking a type of genetically modified corn to health risks in rats was of insufficient scientific quality to draw any conclusions on the safety of such crops, an initial review by the EU's food safety watchdog has ...

    www.reuters.com

  • Pesticide Use Proliferating With GMO Crops, Study Warns

    Scott McAllister remembers well the meeting with the Monsanto salesman. The third-generation Iowa farmer questioned the agricultural giant's peddler about his merchandise -- a new seed genetically engineered to withstand Monsanto's own Roundup ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • High court to hear farmer, Monsanto seed dispute

    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a dispute between a soybean farmer and Monsanto Co. over the company's efforts to limit farmers' use of its patented, genetically engineered Roundup Ready seeds.

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  • Earnings Analysis: Monsanto

    Monsanto (MON) recently reported its preliminary financial results for the year ended Aug. 31, 2012. In this article, CapitalCube will provide a unique peer-based analysis of the company.

    seekingalpha.com

  • Monsanto Posts Loss, Lower Seed Sales

    Monsanto expects to realize a 5%-to-10% increase in corn prices for 2013 as farmers seek premium, better-performing seeds within its portfolio.

    online.wsj.com

  • Monsanto Says Earnings May Rise 17%, Trailing Estimates

    The forecast is consistent with Monsanto's previous comments, even though "the Street is a bit ahead," Kevin W. McCarthy, an analyst at Bank of America Corp.

    www.businessweek.com

  • Monsanto posts quarterly loss as corn seed sales fall

    (Reuters) - Monsanto Co (MON.N) posted a bigger quarterly loss for a typically weak quarter on Wednesday, and the global agribusiness group offered a conservative outlook for its new fiscal year.

    www.reuters.com

  • Monsanto 4th-Quarter Loss Widens on Softer Corn, Cotton Seed Sales

    Monsanto Co.'s (MON) fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened as the world's largest seed company saw corn and cotton seed sales decline.

    online.wsj.com

  • UPDATE 3-Monsanto outlook, quarterly loss knock shares

    Quarterly loss worse than year ago. * Corn, cotton sales down; soybeans, vegetables up. * Sees U.S. corn acres steady at 96 million in 2013.

    www.reuters.com

  • Monsanto, Potash Downgraded By Lazard

    Tweet. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Monsanto Co. (MON) and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) were downgraded Wednesday by Lazard Capital Markets following a fiscal fourth quarter loss and weaker-than-expected 2013 outlook from Monsanto.

    www.thestreet.com

  • Monsanto's loss widens on lower seed sales

    Investment bank Jefferies late last month said it expected Monsanto to end the fiscal year on a strong note, and the firm raised its earnings estimate for Monsanto for the new fiscal year. It expects increased soybean planting in Latin America and ...

    www.marketwatch.com

  • Paraguay and Monsanto: The Seeds of Discord

    In a controversial move seen by many as proof that Monsanto meddled in Paraguay's domestic affairs, the Franco government has approved the cultivation of genetically modified corn and cotton.

    upsidedownworld.org

  • Massachusetts Schools Sue Monsanto For PCB Contamination

    A new lawsuit over harmful levels of the coolant polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) in Massachusetts school buildings is forcing biotech firm Monsanto Company to revisit its unsavory past. Before Monsanto became the agricultural giant it is today, the ...

    thinkprogress.org

  • Monsanto Profit Withers After Drought Fries Corn Crop

    Monsanto's profits dried up last quarter, as the worst drought in decades forced farmers to cut back on corn and cotton seed.

    www.forbes.com

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