Roundup Co history

1982: Monsanto and Calgene - a biotech company that Monsanto would later acquire - was already working on creating genetically modified crops to confer resistance to glyphosate;

Although they continued to deny claims that Agent Orange caused the veterans’ cancers, in 1984, the companies settled the class-action lawsuit for $180 million ($442 million today) with Monsanto, alone, agreeing to pay 45% of the settlement.

John E. Franz will receive the National Medal for Technology in 1987 and the Perkin Medal for Applied Chemistry for his work on glyphosate.

1989: Monsanto strikes deal with Asgrow to create Roundup Ready genetically modified crops for commercial market In 1989, three companies struck a deal: Agracetus, Asgrow and Monsanto.

1991: EPA mysteriously reversed its decision based on the lack of convincing evidence of carcinogenicity;

1992: Pioneer pays the agribusiness giant Monsanto for the use of Roundup resistance gene;

A pioneer of biotechnology, Monsanto will develop Roundup-resistant crops beginning in 1996.

A new Monsanto Company, based on the previous agricultural division of Pharmacia, is incorporated as a stand-alone subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company. (Pharmacia itself eventually becomes a subsidiary of Pfizer, in 2003).

He has been Editor/Publisher of Farm Equipment since its acquisition in 2004, and has served in several capacities with the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Assn. and Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers.

The 2005 season also marked the year in which the billionth acre was planted with biotech crops and the year in which the billionth acre harvested.

In 2006, the town of Nitro, West Virginia, where Agent Orange was produced, filed a lawsuit against Monsanto for contaminating their city with Agent Orange byproduct pollution of Dioxin, the compound that has linked to causing cancer.

By 2007, the EPA reported agricultural use of glyphosate in the range of 180–185 million pounds.

2010: Glyphosate was patented in the United States by Monsanto as an antibiotic;

In 2013, Monsanto subsequently paid the city $93 million in compensatory damages.

2014: Glyphosate use had increased 9-fold in the United States and 15-fold worldwide;

In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a department of the World Health Organization, released a report following numerous studies on the effects of glyphosate, classifying it as a “Class 2A – Probable Carcinogen” to humans.

2016: Alarming levels of glyphosate contamination were found in popular American foods including cereal and snacks;

Just after midnight on August 1, 2017, attorney Brent Wisner gave his legal team the go-ahead to start publishing a series of internal memos and documents from the Monsanto corporation.