Monsanto and Bayer CropScience in deals to
share technology
Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:43am
EDT
April 16 (Reuters) - Global biotech seed
giant Monsanto
Co
and rival Bayer CropScience said Tuesday
they have signed a
series of cross-licensing deals to share
certain crop
biotechnology for weed and pest
control.
Monsanto said it will provide Bayer CropScience, a subsidiary of Bayer AG of Germany, with a royalty-bearing license to
herbicide-tolerant soybean technology known as Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield and
Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Xtend technology in the United States and Canada.
Bayer CropScience also will receive a
royalty-bearing
license to use Monsanto's Intacta RR2 PRO,
an insect-protected
soybean, in Brazil
with an option to a royalty-bearing license
in other Latin-American countries in the
future. Bayer
CropScience will be able to stack the
genetic traits with other
traits in the crops it develops under
certain conditions.
In return, Bayer CropScience will grant
Monsanto licenses to
evaluate some of its own technologies for
controlling corn
rootworm pests and for making crops that
are herbicide tolerant.
Financial terms of the deals were not
disclosed.
On April 11, Monsanto announced a similar
cross-licensing
arrangement with Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of Dow
Chemical. In that deal, Monsanto is licensing
Dow
AgroSciences' new Enlist Weed Control
System herbicide-tolerant
trait for use in field corn. And Dow
AgroSciences is licensing
Monsanto corn rootworm technology that is
under development.
Monsanto's Roundup Ready crop technology
has been a popular
platform for soybeans, corn, cotton and
other crops, giving
farmers the ability to kill weeds without
harming the
herbicide-tolerant crops when they spray
their fields with
Roundup herbicide.
But heavy use of Roundup has spurred
expansion of Roundup
resistant weeds, and Monsanto and other
agricultural biotech
companies have been working to come up
with new combinations of
chemicals to try to fight back weed
resistance. Insect
resistance is also a growing concern in
some areas.
Bayer AG
The Bayer company then
became part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World
War II, the IG Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave
labor camps, notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration
camp.[2] IG Farben owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[3] a
chemical used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps.
After World War II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an
individual business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven
years in prison by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, was made head of
the supervisory board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Bayer has discovered, among others:
Parathion, also called parathion-ethyl or diethyl
parathion, is an organophosphate compound. It is a potent insecticide and
acaricide. It was originally developed by IG
Farben in the 1940s. It is highly toxic to non-target organisms,
including humans. Its use is banned or restricted in many countries, and there
are proposals to ban it from all use. Closely related is "methyl
parathion"
Propoxur,
insecticide
Propoxur (Baygon) is a carbamate insecticide and was
introduced in 1959. Propoxur is a non-systemic insecticide with a fast knockdown
and long residual effect used against turf, forestry, and household pests and
fleas. It is also used in pest control for other domestic animals, Anopheles
mosquitoes, ants, gypsy moths, and other agricultural pests.[1][2] It can also
be used as a molluscicide.[2][3][4]
Several US states have petitioned the
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to use propoxur against
bedbug infestations, but the EPA has been reluctant to approve indoor use
because of its potential toxicity to children after chronic
exposure.
Bayer
AG
Bayer
CropScience is a subsidiary of Bayer
AG.
Note: Crowell &
Moring was the lobby firm for Bayer
CropScience.
Stephanie
Daigle is a senior policy adviser at Crowell & Moring, and was an associate
administrator for the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
Carol M. Browner
was an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, and is a
senior fellow, director at the Center for
American Progress.
Melody C. Barnes
was the EVP for the Center for American
Progress, the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, and is
Barack Obama’s golf
partner.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder at the Center for American
Progress.
George Soros was a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress, is the
founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations
(think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the
Brookings Institution (think
tank).
George H. Poste
is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations (think tank), and a director at the Monsanto Company.
Robert J.
Stevens is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations (think tank), and a director at the Monsanto
Company.
Jose H.
Villarreal is a director at the Center
for American Progress, and a senior adviser at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
LLP.
Joshua Tzuker was
a lobbyist for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, and is counsel at Crowell &
Moring.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for Monsanto Company, and the Dow Chemical
Company.
Richard T.
Crowder was the president & CEO, Dow
AgroSciences for the Dow Chemical
Company, the under secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the
chief agriculture negotiator for the Office
of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Vernon E.
Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP,
a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Klaus
Kleinfeld is a trustee at the
Brookings Institution (think
tank), a director at Bayer
AG, a director at the American
Council on Germany, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Gregory S. Babe
is a director at the American Council on
Germany, and the president & CEO for the Bayer
Corporation.
Mayer Brown was
the lobby firm for the Bayer
Corporation.
Scott Parven was
the chairman, public policy for
Mayer Brown, and is a partner
at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
LLP.
Bayer
Corporation is the North American subsidiary of Bayer AG.
Robert A. Helman
was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), is a partner at Mayer Brown, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William M. Daley
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, was a partner at Mayer
Brown, and the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
William M.
Daley
Professional career
Daley returned to
the practice of law, as a partner with the firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt)
from 1993 to 1997.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was
a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for the Bayer
HealthCare, and was the lobby firm for the Monsanto
Company.
Bayer
HealthCare is a subsidiary of Bayer
AG.
Bayer
Corporation is the North American subsidiary of Bayer AG.
Gregory S. Babe
is the president & CEO for the Bayer
Corporation, and a director at the American Council on Germany.
Joseph
McLaughlin is a director at the American
Council on Germany, and a partner at
Sidley Austin
LLP.
Klaus
Kleinfeld is a director at the
American Council on Germany, a
director at Bayer AG, a trustee at
the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a director at the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
John W. Bachmann
is a director at the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, and was a director at the Monsanto
Company.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for the Monsanto
Company.
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