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3:51 pm
Fri April 26, 2013

Sturgeon farmer donates $5,000 she won from Monsanto Fund

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The Boone County Fire Department and the food pantry in Sturgeon both received unexpected $2,500 donations this week. 

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Business
4:12 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

Monsanto plans $400M expansion in Chesterfield

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Monsanto looks to expand its St. Louis facilities, adding more jobs, greenhouses and laboratories.

Monsanto Co. plans a $400 million expansion at its suburban St. Louis research center that could add 675 jobs over the next three years.

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Business Beat
4:52 pm
Wed February 20, 2013

GM seeds and a new Columbia housing ordinance

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Researchers at Monsanto chart the progression of a corn plant over 10 weeks: seed, immature plant, callus, early shoot, shoots, early rooting and advanced rooting. Monsanto fills growth chambers reflecting diverse climate conditions with myriad seed samples.

Coming up we’ll kick off a three-part series from Harvest Public Media on the Science of the Seed. For the introductory report, Amy Mayer explores the origins of gene transformation.

But let’s first start in Columbia where as of February, landlords are required to maintain a list of all tenants. It’s part of a new occupancy limitation disclosure ordinance recently passed by the City Council. KBIA’s Andrew Yost reports that the ordinance deals with several overcrowding issues concerning neighbors.

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Agriculture
4:13 pm
Wed February 20, 2013

The seeds of genetic modification

Credit Amy Mayer / Harvest Public Media
Researchers at Monsanto chart the progression of a corn plant over 10 weeks: seed, immature plant, callus, early shoot, shoots, early rooting and advanced rooting. Monsanto fills growth chambers reflecting diverse climate conditions with myriad seed samples.

The vast majority of the corn and soybeans in United States grow from seeds that have been genetically modified. The technology is barely 30 years old and the controversy surrounding it somewhat younger. But how did it even become possible?

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