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Jul 3, 2018

Germany’s Bayer closes $63 billion Monsanto takeover, plans to drop US company’s name

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, food, genetics

Monsanto’s agricultural biotechnology research and development operations that are going to Bayer are the largest in the world and include making genetically modified seeds for such crops as corn, soybeans and cotton. Corn represented almost 60 percent of Monsanto’s total seed and genomics business last year.


German conglomerate Bayer on Thursday closed its $63 billion merger with St. Louis-based agribusiness giant Monsanto and plans to drop the U.S. company’s name.

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