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Monsanto Corn Failing To Protect Fields From Rootworms, Report Says

29.08.2013 - Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is...

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DuPont Gains Hard-Fought Majority Stake In Pannar Seed

01.08.2013 - U.S. chemical and seed company DuPont said on Wednesday it completed its three-year effort to buy a majority stake in South Africa's largest seed company, overcoming that country's...

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U.S. Says Probe of Monsanto GMO Wheat Finds No New Contamination

30.07.2013 - U.S. government investigators said on Monday they still have few answers as to how an unapproved genetically altered wheat developed by Monsanto was found this spring growing in an...

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Syngenta’s H1 Earnings Dampened by Wet Spring

25.07.2013 - Syngenta said on Wednesday it expected underlying sales growth to pick up pace in the second half of the year, after a cold, wet spring hit earnings in the first six months...

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DuPont To Exit Paints Business

24.07.2013 - DuPont plans to exit its once-lucrative paint pigments business to focus on a thriving agricultural unit better equipped to shield the biggest U.S. chemicals maker from market...

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules for Monsanto in Patent Fight

18.07.2013 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an Indiana farmer violated agribusiness company Monsanto's patent for a type of soybean. In a case closely watched by the biotechnology...

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Peltz’ Trian Has Amassed A “Big Stake” in DuPont

18.07.2013 - Trian Fund Management, headed by Nelson Peltz, has amassed a "big stake" in chemicals maker DuPont, CNBC said on Wednesday. Shares of DuPont rose 4.8% on the news of Trian's stake...

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Monsanto to Withdraw EU Approval Requests For New GMO Crops

18.07.2013 - Monsanto said on Wednesday it will withdraw all pending approval requests to grow new types of genetically modified crops in the European Union, due to the lack of commercial...