{"id":232,"date":"2011-08-22T12:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/sec-investigating-monsantos-roundup-tactics.html"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:07:54","slug":"sec-investigating-monsantos-roundup-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/sec-investigating-monsantos-roundup-tactics.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC investigating Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"Somebody oughta.\n<p>\nTom Philpott wrote for Mother Jones 19 July 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/tom-philpott\/2011\/07\/roundup-sec-investigates-monsanto\">\nSEC Investigates Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup Biz<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crevecoeur.patch.com\/articles\/monsanto-announces-big-quarterly-earnings-sec-investigation\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/o1.aolcdn.com\/dims-shared\/dims3\/PATCH\/resize\/273x203\/http:\/\/hss-prod.hss.aol.com\/hss\/storage\/patch\/236945d7a4d373919a76474231d828d9\"><\/a>\nThe SEC is investigating Monsanto&#8217;s tactics for defending the market\nfor its herbicide, Roundup. The news emerged just before the July 4\nholiday weekend, during Monsanto&#8217;s press conference about its quarterly\nfinancial earnings. Company execs boasted of a 77 percent increase in\nprofit before dropping a mini-bombshell, The Wall Street Journal\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20110629-708163.html\">\nreported:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nMonsanto said it was cooperating with a previously undisclosed\nUS Securities and Exchange Commission probe into its customer\nincentive programs for herbicides in fiscal years 2009 and 2010,\nand had received a subpoena to provide related documents.\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\nA subpoena sounds like a start.\nIf they do a real investigation I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if they find\nenough evidence to pull some licenses.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somebody oughta. Tom Philpott wrote for Mother Jones 19 July 2011, SEC Investigates Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup Biz The SEC is investigating Monsanto&#8217;s tactics for defending the market for its herbicide, Roundup. The news emerged just before the July 4 holiday weekend, during Monsanto&#8217;s press conference about its quarterly financial earnings. Company execs boasted of a 77 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,40,11],"tags":[760,764,763,15,761,762,100],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-economy","category-law","tag-code-enforcement","tag-collusion","tag-investigation","tag-monsanto","tag-sec","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-seed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-3K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}