AGCO announced an agreement to acquire the Precision Planting equipment business from The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., announced it is terminating an agreement for Deere & Co. to acquire Precision Planting.

After reports were released that President Trump was considering pulling the U.S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the president of Mexico and prime minister of Canada contacted the White House to request renegotiating the agreement, The New York Times reported.

The president's blueprint budget for 2018, which the White House released in mid-March, details plans to cut the USDA’s budget by 21%.

Dupont indicated its merger with Dow Chemical would take longer than previously expected.

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Justice filed a lawsuit to stop Deere & Co. from acquiring the Precision Planting equipment business from The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co.

THE DOW Chemical Co. and DuPont announced that stockholders of both companies approved all stockholder proposals necessary to complete the merger of the two corporations.

THE EPA SOUGHT public comments in April regarding the use of dicamba herbicide with Monsanto’s Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans and Bollgard II XtendFlex cotton.

A recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that two widely used neonicotinoid insecticides appear to significantly harm honeybee colonies over the winter — especially during colder winters.

U.S. SUPREME COURT justices signaled last month that Monsanto Co. was in a strong position to claim that an Indiana farmer violated its patented genetically modified soybeans.