Biotech in the Land of Oz
If you look at TV Guide any time during the week you can see several nationally syndicated TV programs talking about some of the popular topics in American culture. Food and home are two of the biggest themes so it’s no surprise that agricultural biotechnology and the connections to food would be among the topics [...]
Industrial Farming Gives Freedom of Choice for Farmers
From Mica: I discovered my colleague, Ed Umbaugh, through Twitter a few months ago. His Twitter bio intrigued me: “Ed Umbaugh lives on a very small farm where we raise grass fed lamb. I am a Tech at a Monsanto soybean seed plant.” I asked him if he’d be willing to share insight into his [...]
Roundup Ready Sugarbeet Court Case Update
Here’s the latest information on the Roundup Ready sugarbeet case. There was a hearing on Friday, Aug. 13. At the hearing, Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court issued an order which states that harvest and processing of Roundup Ready® sugar beets and sugar beet seed crops planted before August 13, 2010 are not [...]
Five Answers on Monsanto’s Haiti Seed Donation
Since announcing Monsanto’s $4 million seed donation to Haitian farmers on May 13, there have been some questions and some inaccuracies regarding details of the gift. We covered some of the answers in this initial blog post, which primarily addressed how the donation came about and noted the seeds were hybrids not biotech (GMO). Monsanto [...]
Reflection on Earnings
On Wednesday morning, I sat with my coffee cup in hand and listened via Webcast to our CEO Hugh Grant talk with investors and analysts about Monsanto’s second quarter earnings. At the same time, I had my Tweetdeck and Google Reader up to scan and follow the latest comments from our farmer customers. It was [...]
What RR1 Patent Expiration Means for Farmers
The patent for the original Roundup Ready (RR1) soybean trait is set to expire in 2014. That fact has raised all kinds of interest and questions, starting first with what it means for farmers. Late last year, Monsanto worked to explain our intentions. Lately, several groups, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, have asked about [...]
Monsanto Corn Causes Organ Damage? Not So.
By Dan Goldstein (aka Dr. Dan) Recently, a paper was released claiming three Monsanto corn varieties cause organ damage in mammals. This simply isn’t true. In the current paper (de Vendomois et al., 2009) as with the prior publication (Seralini et al, 2007), Seralini and his colleagues use non-traditional statistical methods to reassess toxicology data [...]
Monsanto Response to Associated Press Article Regarding Anti-Competitive Claims
This weekend’s Associated Press article on Monsanto’s licensing agreements with companies missed the mark on the real facts behind our business and our licensing approach, including: Our business has grown tremendously over the years thanks to a number of factors – an early investment in biotechnology, adding new approaches to historic breeding, and a decision [...]
Biotechnology’s Impact on Ag
By Tyne Morgan I remember as a little girl driving to Grandma’s house one weekend and seeing some of my family members out of the window working in the field. I remember specifically asking my mother what they were doing, and she simply told me pulling weeds out of soybeans. She also told us [...]
Animal DNA in My Tomato???
Fish DNA in tomatoes and potatoes with spider DNA? and GMO vegetables have animal DNA… Frakenfoods are a myth, no animal dna in GMOs and most vegetables/fruits are not GMOs.
Reasons We Do Need GM Foods: It is about improving nutrition
Hunger and malnutrition are the single gravest threats to the world’s public health and biotechnology, from companies like Monsanto, can enhance human nutrition and food supply.
