15.09.2016
- In a conference call with journalists on Sept. 14, the chief executives of Bayer and Monsanto expressed confidence that their planned $66 billion merger will face few antitrust...
31.08.2016
- As the US agriculture sector awaits a final opinion from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the threat to bee populations from neonicotinoid-based pesticides (neonics)...
12.08.2016
- The European Commission has opened a full-scale investigation into the proposed $130 billion merger between US chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont, expressing concern that the...
15.07.2016
- After engaging it what it said were “private talks” with US agribusiness giant Monsanto over the past weeks and “receiving additional information,” Bayer has raised its takeover...
30.05.2016
- Bayer’s plans to take over Monsanto may face higher antitrust hurdles than the company acknowledges, the US newspaper St Louis Dispatch, published in Monsanto’s hometown of St...
08.11.2015
- The agrochemicals industry is on the brink of a new round of mergers and acquisitions, not seen since 2007, following the collapse of global agriculture prices. According to a...
05.06.2015
- BioConsortia celebrated its first anniversary in March. The innovative agricultural biotech company focuses on the discovery and development of beneficial microbial consortia for...
30.01.2014
- Two shareholder resolutions backed by environmental, food safety and consumer activists groups failed to be approved at Monsanto's annual general meeting in suburban St. Louis...
