The most complete tool for marketing your business in the seed processing industry http://www.seedtoday.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:45 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_Welcomes_Opportunity_to_Participate_in_DOJ_USDA_Workshop-91024.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_Welcomes_Opportunity_to_Participate_in_DOJ_USDA_Workshop-91024.html St. Louis (March 12, 2010) -- As part of today’s first joint public workshop exploring competition issues in the agriculture industry, Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) will participate in a panel discussion about the past, present and future of the seed and trait industry. The joint workshop, organized by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, represents an opportunity for Monsanto to offer its perspective on the importance of investment and innovation in agriculture and the valuable role that U.S. farmers are playing in meeting the world’s growing needs. “Monsanto expects the workshop to highlight a diverse set of Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:07 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_Faces_Fight_as_Probes_Bolster_Critics__StLouisPostDispatch_-91023.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_Faces_Fight_as_Probes_Bolster_Critics__StLouisPostDispatch_-91023.html Monsanto Faces Fight as Probes Bolster Critics St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) -- March 11, 2010 -- As the world's largest seed company, Monsanto Co. has been branded a bully before. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Related CategoriesSeeds and CommoditiesUsually, the company dismisses such criticism as ax-grinding by activists or others who are opposed to its genetically modified seeds. These days, however, Monsanto has a bigger fight on its hands: a civil antitrust lawsuit by DuPont, the parent of archrival Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., and parallel antitrust investigations by the Justice Department as well as several states, including Iowa. The government investigations are thought to focus on the Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:45:15 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_s_Seed_Patents_May_Trump_Antitrust_Claims__Bloomberg_-91021.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_s_Seed_Patents_May_Trump_Antitrust_Claims__Bloomberg_-91021.html Seed patents may trump antitrust claims (Bloomberg) -- Monsanto Co., facing antitrust probes into its genetically modified seeds, may benefit from previous court rulings in which intellectual property rights trumped competition concerns, antitrust lawyers say. The Department of Justice and seven state attorneys general are investigating whether the world’s largest seed company is using gene licenses to keep competing technologies off the market. At issue is how the St. Louis-based company sells and licenses its patented trait that allows farmers to kill weeds with Roundup herbicide while leaving crops unharmed. The company’s Roundup Ready gene was in 93 percent of U.S. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:51:56 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Syngenta_Seeds_Submits_EPA_Application_for_Reduced_Refuge_Lepidopteran_Only_Trait_Stack_in_Corn__-91019.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Syngenta_Seeds_Submits_EPA_Application_for_Reduced_Refuge_Lepidopteran_Only_Trait_Stack_in_Corn__-91019.html Minnetonka, MN. (March 5, 2010) -- Syngenta Seeds, Inc., today announced it has submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an application for the registration of its Agrisure Viptera™ 3220 trait stack, featuring two modes of action against all major lepidopteran corn pests and a reduced refuge of 5% in the Midwestern Corn Belt. The Agrisure Viptera 3220 trait stack combines the forthcoming Agrisure Viptera trait, featuring the breakthrough Vip3A protein, the industry‘s first “non-Cry” (non-crystalline) insect control protein and a completely new mode of action in corn. In addition, the stack contains the trusted and tested Agrisure® CB/LL Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:39 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Additional_Dow_AgroSciences_Field_Trial_Data_for_SmartStax_trade_-90982.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Additional_Dow_AgroSciences_Field_Trial_Data_for_SmartStax_trade_-90982.html Editor's note: This article provided by Dow AgroScience INDIANAPOLIS (March 3, 2010) -- Three years of field trials for SmartStax™ conducted by Dow AgroSciences have demonstrated solid yield performance paired with consistent and effective insect control in corn. New 2009 data, as well as data averaged over the past three years, show SmartStax hybrids provide a yield advantage, as well as effective control against a broad spectrum of corn insects, including western bean cutworm (WBCW). SmartStax provides multiple modes of action for above- and below-ground insect control. The technology was recently registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:43:53 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Univ__of_AR_new__Roy_J__Rice_Stands_Tall_with_High_Yield-90981.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Univ__of_AR_new__Roy_J__Rice_Stands_Tall_with_High_Yield-90981.html Breeder seed plots of ‘Roy J’ at the Rice Research and Extension Center Fayetteville, AR (March 11) -- ‘Roy J,’ a new, very high yielding rice variety developed by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, earned its shot at the seed bins of Arkansas rice growers in part by standing tall through the windiest of weather in field tests over the past five years. Chuck Wilson, rice agronomist with the Division of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service, said the straw strength of Roy J “is the best I have ever seen.” He added that in field tests, “I have only seen one Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:33:39 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Stewardship_Committee_Announces_IRM_Compliance_Remains_Stable-90964.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Stewardship_Committee_Announces_IRM_Compliance_Remains_Stable-90964.html ST. LOUIS (March 1, 2010) -- The Agricultural Biotechnology Stewardship Technical Committee (ABSTC) today reported that corn Insect Resistance Management (IRM) compliance has remained stable through the period 2007 through 2009. “Our industry is committed to ensuring that growers understand the importance of Bt technology stewardship so that they continue in the future to provide benefits to growers and the environment ,” said Dr. Nick Storer, ABSTC Steering Committee Chairman. “While the overwhelming majority of growers are in full or partial compliance with IRM requirements, it is crucial that we all continue working together to sustain these Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:26:50 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_Draws_Antitrust_Scrutiny__Wall_Street_Journal_-90955.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Monsanto_Draws_Antitrust_Scrutiny__Wall_Street_Journal_-90955.html Monsanto Draws Antitrust Scrutiny Regulators Offer Competitors, Farmers and Activists a Platform to Gripe About Crop Biotech Giant.ArticleComments (1)more in Business ».EmailPrintSave This ↓ More. .facebook Twitter Digg StumbleUpon + More close Yahoo! BuzzMySpacedel.icio.usRedditLinkedInFarkViadeoOrkut Text .By SCOTT KILMAN Crop biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. has the most at stake in the first of an unprecedented series of public meetings that the antitrust wing of the Justice Department is holding across the Farm Belt. In January, the Justice Department launched a formal antitrust investigation of the St. Louis company's handling of the most widely planted genetically modified crop in the U.S., a herbicide-immune Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:23:06 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/ARS_Sends_Third_Seed_Shipment_to_Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault_in_Norway-90947.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/ARS_Sends_Third_Seed_Shipment_to_Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault_in_Norway-90947.html http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100311.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:58:37 CST http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Evogene_Reports_Fourth_Quarter_and_Annual_2009_Financial_Results_-90909.html http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Evogene_Reports_Fourth_Quarter_and_Annual_2009_Financial_Results_-90909.html Rehovot, Israel (March 10, 2010) -- Evogene Ltd. announced today its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. Ofer Haviv, Evogene's president and CEO, stated: "We are extremely pleased to see the continuing rapid growth and development of our company. During the past year, we continued to advance under our current collaborations, entered into new collaborations with world leading seed companies, substantially increased our infrastructure and capacity and furthered the evaluation of our castor bean lines being developed for biodiesel uses. In addition, during 2009, significant resources were allocated, and during