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The Monsanto Company ( / mɒnˈsæntoʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate -based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major producer of genetically engineered crops.
The plant was later bought by Monsanto Industrial Chemicals Co. in 1935. [6] [7] [8] The plant, just west of Anniston, had around 1,000 employees. [2] One historian wrote that, "In many ways, the spirit of Swann Chemical became the corporate culture of Monsanto."
Dioxin. In a case that ran from February 1984 through October 1987, Monsanto was the defendant in the longest civil jury trial in U.S. history, Kemner v. Monsanto. The case involved a group of plaintiffs who claimed to have been poisoned by dioxin in 1979 when a train derailed in Sturgeon, Missouri.
Monsanto is founded as a chemical company. 1945–1960. Monsanto begins producing agrochemicals. 1961–1982. Monsanto creates an agricultural division. It manufactures Agent Orange, which is later banned. 1982–2000. Monsanto starts its pivot into biotechnology. It genetically engineers a plant cell in 1982, commercializes the first ...
May 1, 2024 at 8:24 PM. By Clark Mindock. (Reuters) - A Washington state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $185 million verdict against Bayer's Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a ...
Monsanto House of the Future. / 33.81250°N 117.91833°W / 33.81250; -117.91833. The Monsanto House of the Future was an attraction at Disneyland 's Tomorrowland [1] in Anaheim, California, USA, from 1957 to 1967. [2] It offered a tour of a futuristic home, and was intended to demonstrate the versatility of modern plastics.
Tyler resigned his commission in the Union Army on April 6, 1864, then being older than the retirement age of 65, and moved to New Jersey. Then, in the 1870s, he moved to Alabama and founded the town of Anniston, named for his daughter-in-law.
01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www .annistonal .gov. Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. [2]