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Monsanto, Microsoft to invest in ag technology in Brazil

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 5, 2016

Sao Paulo | Reuters — U.S. biotech company Monsanto and U.S. software and tech firm Microsoft announced on Monday a partnership to invest in agricultural technology startups in Brazil. Monsanto will join a Brazilian investment fund with up to 300 million reais (C$118 million), managed by Microsoft, evaluating ideas for new digital tools to be

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Monsanto in talks with Bayer, others about ‘strategic options’

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume June 29, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto is in talks with Bayer and other companies regarding “alternative strategic options,” a month after it rejected the German company’s US$62 billion takeover offer, the U.S. seed producer said on Wednesday. Monsanto’s options include combinations with other companies and businesses in the sector beyond Bayer. Potential deals could involve BASF

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EU officials to decide on Roundup after political impasse

By Alissa De Carbonnel, GFM Network News June 25, 2016

Brussels | Reuters –– An impasse between EU nations on whether to allow Monsanto’s Roundup and similar herbicides to continue to be sold means that the European Commission, rather than national politicians, will decide the issue next week. With most EU attention focused on Britain’s shock decision to quit the bloc, everyday work continued in

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Mobile phones of yesteryear and crops reach a “desperate” stage

Our History: June 1988

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 16, 2016

Mobile communication options today look different than those offered in our June 16, 1988 issue. Last week’s Our History item was from 1961, which had been driest ever on the Prairies, even drier than the 1930s. That dubious distinction ended in 1988, and our front-page story described crop conditions as “desperate.” The Red River Valley

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Bayer ex-CEO reportedly opposed Monsanto deal

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 11, 2016

Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer ex-chief executive Marijn Dekkers opposed the company’s plans for a US$62 billion takeover of U.S. seeds firm Monsanto, German magazine Der Spiegel reported. Dekkers warned Bayer non-executive board chairman Werner Wenning against going ahead with the offer, Der Spiegel said in an excerpt of an article to be published on

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Bayer waiting for Monsanto to engage after spurned bid

By GFM Network News June 10, 2016

Reuters — Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, has still not opened its books more than two weeks after it rejected Bayer AG’s US$62 billion acquisition offer but left the door open to a possible deal, according to people familiar with the matter. The impasse shows that little progress in negotiations has been made since

Crops

Agrium sees opportunities from major merger talk

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel June 8, 2016

Reuters — Agrium, North America’s largest retail seller of products for crop producers, could benefit if some of the biggest makers of seed and agricultural chemicals merge, CEO Chuck Magro said on Wednesday. Responding to a question during a company investor day in Toronto about how possible tie-ups of ChemChina and Syngenta, or of Bayer

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BASF says not backed into corner by Bayer’s Monsanto swoop

By GFM Network News June 8, 2016

Ludwigshafen, Germany | Reuters — BASF, which has so far kept out of a consolidation push among global seeds and pesticides groups, said its business model was not affected by rival Bayer’s plans to buy Monsanto. “We are not backed into a corner by what is happening in the market,” the group’s deputy chief executive

Opinion

Big Seed’s big players prepare to dance

By Alan Guebert June 7, 2016

Since late last summer, Big Seed’s big players have looked more like anxious high school kids hoping to pair off for the senior prom than international businesses investing in new products and markets. The first to go courting was St. Louis-based Monsanto. Last August it offered nearly $46 billion for its Swiss classmate, Syngenta, only

Crops

EU countries refuse to back new licence for glyphosate

By Alissa De Carbonnel, GFM Network News June 6, 2016

Brussels | Reuters — EU nations refused to back a limited extension of the herbicide glyphosate’s use on Monday, threatening withdrawal of Monsanto’s Roundup and other weed-killers from shelves if no decision is reached by the end of the month. Contradictory findings on carcinogenic risks have thrust the chemical into the centre of a dispute

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Monsanto, Microsoft to invest in ag technology in Brazil

Monsanto in talks with Bayer, others about ‘strategic options’

EU officials to decide on Roundup after political impasse

Mobile phones of yesteryear and crops reach a “desperate” stage

Bayer ex-CEO reportedly opposed Monsanto deal

Bayer waiting for Monsanto to engage after spurned bid

Agrium sees opportunities from major merger talk

BASF says not backed into corner by Bayer’s Monsanto swoop

Big Seed’s big players prepare to dance

EU countries refuse to back new licence for glyphosate

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