Monsanto profit driven by US, Latin America growth

Monsanto Co. said Wednesday that a strong and early U.S. seed selling season drove its fiscal second quarter net income up 19 percent. The U.S. agricultural giant raised its earnings outlook for the full year.

W.Va. judge OKs settlements in Agent Orange suit

A West Virginia judge approved a settlement Friday in a class-action lawsuit filed by residents who say that chemical manufacturer Monsanto Co. burned dioxin wastes left over from the production of Agent Orange, polluting the area with unsafe levels of the chemical.

Jury pool picked for lawsuit against Monsanto

A jury pool has been chosen for the trial of a class-action lawsuit that seeks medical monitoring for Nitro residents near a former Monsanto Co. chemical plant.

Monsanto 1Q profit surges on seed sales

Monsanto Co. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter earnings soared on strength of its seed business. The company also brightened its outlook for the full fiscal year.

Monsanto reports 4Q loss, will restate earnings

Monsanto Co. reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss that beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and said that it must restate its earnings for the last two years because of a federal investigation into its herbicide sales.

Monsanto spent $1.7 million lobbying gov't in 2Q

Monsanto Co. spent $1.71 million in the second quarter to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure report.

Monsanto posts $680 million profit in 3rd quarter

Monsanto Co. says higher sales of genetically engineered seeds helped it boost is third-quarter profit 77 percent, as the company disclosed federal regulators have subpoenaed the company as part of an investigation into its herbicide business.

Monsanto posts 2Q profit but forecast disappoints

Rising corn seed sales helped boost Monsanto Co.'s second-quarter profit by 15 percent compared to last year, but the company warned that seed discounts and continued losses on its popular Roundup Herbicide would trim profits for 2011.

Monsanto posts $6M profit in 1Q

Monsanto Co. says higher seed sales helped it return to profitability in the first quarter compared with a loss in the same three-month period last year.

Pay falls for Monsanto CEO in 2010

The chairman, president and CEO of Monsanto Co. took a pay cut this year as the world's largest seed company recovers from layoffs and lost sales in its herbicide business.

Monsanto teams up with Sumitomo Chemical

Monsanto Co. said Tuesday it's partnering with weedkiller-maker Sumitomo Chemical Co. to develop a new platform for Monsanto's genetically altered crops.

Monsanto posts smaller loss in 4Q

Monsanto Co. is promising brighter days ahead.

Monsanto to spend $10M over Idaho mine concerns

The company behind a proposed phosphate mine in eastern Idaho plans to invest an additional $10 million into the project to address environmental concerns raised during a public comment period.

Monsanto sees 2010 earnings at low end of range

Monsanto Co., the world's largest seed company, said Tuesday it expects full year earnings at the low end of its previous expected range and is cutting up to 700 more jobs.

Monsanto 3Q net income sags on weak Roundup sales

Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, said Wednesday its fiscal third-quarter net income tumbled 45 percent as it shrank its Roundup weedkiller business amid intense generic competition.

EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam

Federal regulators are concerned that a dam built by Monsanto Co. earlier this year to trap phosphate mine runoff may be stopping more than just pollution.

Cheaper weedkillers force Monsanto to cut prices

Monsanto Co. has been forced to cut prices on its Roundup weedkiller due to intensifying competition from generics, and company shares slumped to a three-year low Thursday on more modest profit expectations.

Monsanto sees 2nd-qtr profit fall 19 percent

When Monsanto said three years ago it would double its annual profit by 2012, the company was making a bold bet on its future — selling biotech seeds rather than old-line chemicals.

Seed maker Monsanto maintains 2010 profit outlook

Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, said Wednesday that it is on track to meet its financial targets this year.

Court rules for Monsanto, antitrust case remains

A legal ruling says DuPont violated it contract with rival Monsanto by developing genetically modified soybeans created with Monsanto's technology, but leaves open DuPont's challenge of the contract on antitrust grounds.

Feds step up antitrust investigation into Monsanto

The Justice Department has intensified its antitrust investigation into Monsanto Co., demanding internal documents that outline marketing tactics of the world's biggest seed company.

Seed maker Monsanto posts 1Q loss, sales sag

Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, said Wednesday it lost $19 million in the first quarter as global sales of its Roundup herbicide sank in the face of generic competition.

Monsanto sets quarterly dividend of 26.5 cents

Agribusiness company Monsanto Co. said Monday its board declared a dividend of 26.5 cents per share.

Monsanto CEO's 2009 compensation slips to $12.7M

Monsanto Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Hugh Grant's compensation package slid about 3.5 percent to $12.7 million in 2009, from $13.1 million the previous year, according to a regulatory filing Monday.

Thousands comment on Monsanto's planned Idaho mine

A proposed Monsanto Co. phosphate mine slated to produce ingredients for Roundup weedkiller generated nearly 7,000 public comments, including from a former U.S. Interior secretary who urges its approval and the Environmental Protection Agency, which wants additional pollution safeguards.

Just after France legislators and officials moved to ban Monsanto’s genetically modified strain of GMO maize over environmental and health concerns, the European Union has decided to step in and re-secure Monsanto’s presence in the country — against the very w …

The Lies You've Been Told... Exposure to genetically modified foods and companion pesticides has been linked to a number of health risks including infertility, neurological disorders, birth defects and cancer. Yet despite all the evidence, the collusion between industry and …

The USDA has a system in place where-in you must meet some pretty precise criteria to get on official seal designating your product as "USDA-Certified Organic" That should allow us to buy in confidence when we're concerned about a product's potential content-right? [Klaxon Soun …

 As I've written before, Bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder  One of my biggest comp …

A fast-spreading plague of "super weeds" taking over U.S. farmland will not be stopped easily, and farmers and government officials need to change existing practices if food production is to be protected, industry experts said on Thursday. "This is a complex problem," said wee …

Keep it up! Keep spreading the word! 

"Volunteers and staff from the California Right to Know Campaign are submitting nearly 1 million signed petitions from registered voters across the state of California to county officials, to place Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act on the Ballot for November 6."

MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTO

PURE FOOD WATCH - March 2012 Floyd L. Cranmer Jr. MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTO 

(NaturalNews) Amid all the controversy over genetically-modified (GM) crops and their pesticides and herbicides decimating bee populations all around the world, biotechnology behemoth Monsanto has decided to buy out one of the major international firms devoted to studying and p …

Do you know what is going in your and your children's mouth?????? Do you know how much harm can be caused?????  If not, take a minute and LEARN.

It was heartening to see a brave woman step forward and be willing to fight soy spraying in her country of Argentina.  Just the other day we saw a plane making low sweeps over the fields across the road of our backyard and I just felt my heart sink.  I am breathing and  …

After losing a 3-day old daughter to kidney failure, a woman named Sofia Gatica from Argentina made a decision to spearhead an anti-Monsanto movement with other mothers of sick children. Monsanto is a biotechnology, agrochemical company which has been polluting the environment  …

The wealthiest Americans believe they've earned their money through hard work and innovation, and that they're the most productive members of society. For the most part they're wrong.

The drama of FDA tyranny versus raw milk freedom continues from one state or province to another, almost like episodes from a dystopian TV series.First, the Amish farmer Dan Allgyer and his wife Rachel were forced to shut down their Pennsylvania farm after two years of harass …

In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthousenews wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of  Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giantknowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently caused &rdq …

More proof that the one thing big corporations don't want is a real "Free market", not if "free markets" mean a place where consumers are given exact information on what goes into the products they can choose from. Corporations are not for "free markets", they are for fixed mar …

According to the most recent figures (provided by the New York University School of Law), 17,638 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2009 — about one death every 30 minutes. In 2008, the Daily Mail labeled the continual and disturbing suicide …

WARSAW — Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday. “The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the MON …

"Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont's Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill. Why? Because Monsanto has threatened to sue the state if the bill passes."

Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill. Why? Because Monsanto has threatened to sue the state if the bill passes.  The popu …

Facing direct opposition from the public, biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow are now making a disturbing attempt to brainwash developing minds into accepting their genetically modified foods using blatant lies and propaganda. In a last ditch effort to potentia …

The claims made in a book from the biotechnology industry are laughable. But these blatant lies are passed off as 'science' for schoolchildren.

On March 15, over 1,500 beekeepers and their allies marched thru the streets of Warsaw, depositing thousands of dead bees on the steps of the Ministry of Agriculture, in protest of genetically modified foods and their requisite pesticides which are killing bees, moths and other a …

Turns out it pays to serve in Congress — if you’re the lawmaker’s son, grandson, niece or cousin. A new report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) found “an extraordinary compendium of creative accounting, self-interested bu …