By Jerry Glover

Over the last couple of days, Monsanto and DuPont have been in the news. So what’s this all about? Is it just some spitting match between two competitors? A complicated legal wrangling? Or is it something else entirely?

There’s a lot of history here.

Thirty years ago, Monsanto and DuPont were both chemical conglomerates, and both had agricultural divisions primarily making and selling pesticides. As the science of biotechnology began to develop, the two companies took very different paths. Monsanto bet the farm on biotech and its application in agriculture. DuPont consciously chose not to invest in … Full Article »