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GM crop farms filled with weeds
Torsten Brinch wrote:
On 5 Sep 2003 10:53:23 GMT, Brian Sandle wrote: "Torsten Brinch" wrote in message ... .. Monsanto ad, for Roundup Ultra in RR cotton: "The only weed control you'll need" http://www.weeds.iastate.edu/weednews/mon-ad.GIF Interesting that ad is offering Roundup with a hood to use on weeds in non-GM cotton crops, too. I found it more interesting that it is offering Roundup as all-season direct spray in RR cotton. I thought past true 4 leaf stage in cotton there would be risk of late season herbicide damage from direct sprays in cotton. I read Monsanto is to split into separate herbicide and GM companies. It was said that Monsanto is to sell its chemical branch. Where did you read that, Brian? Linkname: (6/5/1997) Monsanto Put Wrong Gene in 60,000 Bags of Roundup-Ready Canola Seeds, Enough to Seed 600,000 to 750,000 Acres. URL: http://eces.org/articles/static/86548680054869.shtml size: 254 lines Sorry it was old news. Some of the chemical business was put into a company name Solutia, and that took over responsibilty for some of Monsanto's pollution. (Note: Monsanto also breeds conventional seeds, it's not just GM. They report huge improvements from marker-assisted conventional breeding for yields, in corn, particularly, in last years annual report.) I thought that that side of the business was the more profitable. It looks like GM may be being downplayed. Monsanto has not had sufficient financial success, has it? Threatened by extinction might be a tad strong, but Monsanto does seem to have become rather small now, compared to what it was back in the 1990's. Share values took a beating last year when Pharmacia spun Monsanto off, and soon after the CEO left the company. But, who knows, Monsanto may have something big in the product pipeline, although I can't imagine what that could be. Gordon may know more about returns from Monsanto shares, whether they have been satisfactory returns on investments and how they have been developing over the years. Linkname: Report: Jury rules Solutia owes $3.6M to Alabama plaintiffs - 2003-04-04 - St. Louis Business Journal URL: http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlou...1/daily89.html size: 183 lines LATEST NEWS April 4, 2003 Report: Jury rules Solutia owes $3.6M to Alabama plaintiffs [...] More than a year ago, the jury found Solutia, then Monsanto, liable for knowingly contaminating Alabama homes and bodies with PCBs, known carcinogens. More than 3,500 residents of Anniston had sued both companies. [...] St. Louis-based Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOI) develops specialty chemicals, fibers, fluids and other performance products. The company's stock has fallen from $12.55 a share when the trial started in January 2002 and closed Friday at $1.28 a share, down more than 5 percent. - 2003 American City Business Journals Inc. [...] I don't quite understand the "more than 5%". It seems to be down nearly 90%. Will Monsanto in future form other companies to take losses for clean-up responsibilty, genetic type? Though some of the chemical business went into Solutia it seems they kept Roundup. |
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