Agribusiness
Syngenta shareholders accept ChemChina offer
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ChemChina has secured the support it needs from Syngenta shareholders to wrap up its record $43 billion takeover of the Swiss agrochemicals company popular among U.S. farmers.
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ChemChina has secured the support it needs from Syngenta shareholders to wrap up its record $43 billion takeover of the Swiss agrochemicals company popular among U.S. farmers.
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto, announced on Monday that it has terminated an 18-month-old agreement to sell its Precision Planting LLC business to equipment manufacturer Deere & Company.
Is there about to be a war on milk between the United States and Canada? Big-AgWatch.org columnist Dave Dickey shares his views in this week’s Food For Thought blog.
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.
The first of several thousand lawsuits alleging that Syngenta cost U.S. farmers billions of dollars by releasing a variety of genetically engineered corn seed without Chinese import approval has officially gone to court.
Big-AgWatch.org columnist Dave Dickey says ethics should matter more than profits for corporations. Check out his latest opinion column here.
A mock international tribunal held in the Netherlands and put together by activist groups has concluded that the St. Louis-based seed company Monsanto has “engaged in practices that have impinged on the basic human right to a healthy environment.”
Commodities trader Archer Daniels Midland recently announced it has begun operations at a carbon capture and storage project in central Illinois capable of storing more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.