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President Donald Trump’s pick for the country’s top antitrust position — and key regulator for the $66 billion deal between Bayer AG and Monsanto Co. — is expected to give his confirmation testimony on Wednesday.
During Puerto Rico’s decade of fiscal crisis, when the Island became the top experimental center for genetically engineered seeds, the Government gave away to these seed multinationals over $526 million.
Hundreds of food and farm groups are calling on recently confirmed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step in and block a wave of billion-dollar mega mergers sweeping across America’s agriculture industry.
While new administration officials have cast doubts about climate change, the world’s largest agribusiness companies — which have billions of dollars invested in the health of the planet — have not. Here is a comprehensive guide to what some of the world’s biggest agricultural companies are doing related to climate change based on a review of news reports, SEC documents, their own websites and reports, and publicly available data.
Despite regulatory uncertainty surrounding a record merger agreement with German pharmaceuticals company Bayer AG, St. Louis-based seed firm Monsanto Co. has reported a profitable fiscal first quarter to start 2017.
The top executives of Bayer AG and Monsanto Co. traveled to New York Wednesday to meet with President-elect Donald Trump and make their case for the companies’ planned $66 billion merger.
Monsanto shareholders at a special meeting Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in support of the St. Louis-based seed company’s $66 billion merger with German pharmaceuticals maker Bayer.
A group of U.S. state attorneys general has reportedly joined the federal investigation of the proposed $130 billion merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week urged the Department of Justice to scrutinize the proposed Bayer-Monsanto deal. Read his letter here.
Big-AgWatch.org columnist Dave Dickey weighs in on agribusiness consolidation. How will “mergerpalooza” affect American farmers?