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Monsanto Drops Shared-Risk Program After 11 Seasons

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Monsanto’s sharedrisk program, which over the last 11 seasons refunded almost $40 million to western Canadian canola growers who lost Roundup Ready canola crops early in the growing season, has been scrapped. “The long and short of it, even though the grower wouldn’t see this, the cost of the program obviously outweighed the benefits,” said
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Bayer Settles U. S. Rice Contamination Case

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Germany’s Bayer AG has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of Texas rice growers over claims the company’s experimental biotech rice contaminated the U. S. supply four years ago and decimated exports. Bayer said it had agreed to pay $290,000 to settle the case, involving eight plaintiffs from three farming operations. The
Crops, Oilseeds

KAP Looking Into TUAs On Volunteer Canola Crops – for Aug. 12, 2010

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Should canola seed companies give farmers unable to seed wet fields this spring a break and forgo their contracts fees on volunteer crops? The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is asking itself that question. Butch Harder, a Lowe Farm-area farmer and director of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA), raised the issue here July 22 during
Crops, Oilseeds

KAP Looking Into TUAs On Volunteer Canola Crops – for Aug. 12, 2010

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Should canola seed companies give farmers unable to seed wet fields this spring a break and forgo their contracts fees on volunteer crops? The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is asking itself that question. Butch Harder, a Lowe Farm-area farmer and director of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA), raised the issue here July 22 during
Oilseeds, Opinion

Corporate Co-Operation

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Hardly a week has passed this summer without an announcement of another collaborative effort between the major players in plant breeding. Monsanto’s collaboration with Dow AgroSciences to bring SmartStax, the agriculture industry’s first eight-gene stack, to the market is only the latest of a string of similar announcements in recent years. Monsanto has also just
Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto, Bayer To Cross-License Canola Traits

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Monsanto’s Genuity Roundup Ready canola genetics and Bayer CropScience’s LibertyLink genetics may soon make their way into either company’s canola seed lineups. The two companies announced June 29 they’ve agreed to cross-license their canolas’ respective herbicide tolerance traits on a non-exclusive basis, for commercialization within their respective branded canola seed businesses. Under the global agreement,
Crops, Oilseeds

Don’t Risk Export Access With Deregistered Varieties

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Growers must keep deregistered canola varieties out of fields this spring, says Arvel Lawson, program manager for crop production with the Canola Council of Canada (CCC). “Canada’s bulk-handl ing system for canola means that all growers play a role in keeping canola export ready,” says Lawson. “Each and every load of canola delivered to the

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