ST. LOUIS — Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Contracts show how Monsanto squeezes, squashes smaller competitors
Monday, December 14, 2009 | 4:17 p.m. CST;
updated 10:10 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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