They are genetically modified to tolerate glyphosate, an herbicide that is commercially known as Roundup.
After an exhaustive review, the USDA gave Roundup Ready Alfalfa the green light in 2005.
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Monsanto's agricultural productivity sales, which include sales of its Roundup product, were flat for the quarter.
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Several decades ago Monsanto, one of the large agribusiness firms, developed a new herbicide called RoundUp.
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Monsanto lost its U.S. Patent in 2000 and still has maintained a high level of Roundup sales.
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The spokesman's firm rebuttal, however, did not appear in Xinhua's roundup of his replies to journalists' questions.
My worst case scenario is Roundup loses 50% of its sales and its Operating Margin declines to 10%.
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Perhaps they banged the bottles of Roundup laced water on a horsehair cushion for a bit or something?
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Monsanto sued him for infringing its Roundup Ready patents by using, without authorization, second-generation seeds embedded with its technology.
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Despite White's strides, the Roundup's publisher, Richard Haddad, professes not to be worried.
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Roundup is not as toxic to animals or people as other herbicides, and the crops have allowed farmers to do less tilling.
Geertson Seed Farms, a federal court agreed with CFS, prohibiting Monsanto from selling Roundup Ready Alfalfa pending yet another assessment.
The company's scientists perfected a system in 1996 for injecting genes into seeds that are resistant to the herbicide Roundup.
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Louis, attributed the drop to price decreases for Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides, which were not offset by volume growth.
Their claim is that the rats fed GM corn and Roundup got more such tumours earlier than the control group.
Previous peer-reviewed rat feeding studies using the same products (NK603 and Roundup) have not found any negative food safety impacts.
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Tilling, or plowing, a field prepares the soil for planting and destroys weeds, but a Roundup-ready crop doesn't require extensive tillage.
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