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Monsanto Ground Breaking Sparks Local Backlash: 120 Jobs Not Worth ‘Toxic Company in Your Backyard’

By EcoWatch / 13 hours ago

Monsanto has officially broken ground on a $975 million expansion to its Luling plant in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. The facility will manufacture dicamba, a controversial herbicide used in the company’s new XtendiMax weedkiller for GMO soybeans and cotton. Despite the company’s promise to bring 120 new full-time jobs to the area, it seems many […]

Texas Wineries Worry EPA Approval of Monsanto, Dow Herbicides Will ‘Kill’ Industry

By EcoWatch / January 3, 2017

Missouri’s Largest Peach Farmer Sues Monsanto for Losses From Illegal Herbicide Use

By EcoWatch / December 8, 2016

EPA Approval of Monsanto’s Dicamba Will ‘Massively Increase Use of Toxic Pesticides’ on GMO Crops

By EcoWatch / November 10, 2016

10 States Report Crop Damage From Illegal Dicamba Use on Monsanto’s GMO Seeds

By EcoWatch / September 2, 2016

3 Major Problems With Monsanto’s New GMO Soybeans

By EcoWatch / August 2, 2016

Earlier this year, Monsanto commercially launched its Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans—a product undoubtedly attractive to soy farmers. The new seeds not only promised higher yields, but it would be a new tool in a soy farmer’s arsenal to battle superweeds that have evolved to resist the herbicide glyphosate, aka Roundup. Xtend soybeans are genetically […]