Monsanto No More: Agri-Chemical Giant's Name Dropped In Bayer Acquisition
Germany's Bayer announced in 2016 that it would be buying Monsanto for more than $60 billion. Now it confirms it will be dropping the Monsanto name, which has been made infamous by protesters.
Originally, it was just a name — Olga Monsanto's name, to be precise.
Around the turn of the 20th century, she married a man named John Francis Queeny. He . And over decades, that company expanded from the sweetness business into agri-chemicals, where it began to dominate the
