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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...