Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Shapiro: ‘How can we double or triple food output in a sustainable manner without destroying large parts of the living ...

Robert B. Shapiro, a corporate executive who helped turn NutraSweet — a trade name for aspartame — into a go-to answer for sweet-tooth cravings, and who later promoted the benefits of genetically ...

Speaking hours after German chemical company Bayer disclosed its $66 billion buy of St. Louis agriculture innovator Monsanto, top executives at the firms gave little new insight into how the deal will ...

WASHINGTON -- Top officials for Monsanto and Bayer defended their proposed $66 billion merger before skeptical senators Tuesday, insisting the deal would lead to greater investments in technology that ...

Little more than a decade ago, Monsanto Co. began selling the corn seed with a novel gene to help farmers ward off a pest known as the European corn borer. Aetna said earlier this year it would pull ...

American seed and weed-killer company Monsanto and German medicine and farm chemical maker Bayer are combining in a deal that could help farmers produce higher yields to address challenges from global ...