Canadian fertilizer giants Agrium Inc. and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. said they were in preliminary talks about a possible merger of equals as the industry contends with slumping earnings amid persistently low prices for crop nutrients. However, the companies also said no decision had been made, and there is no assurance the… Read More »

A former financial executive at Monsanto Co. will collect a nearly $ 22.5 million reward for alerting the Securities and Exchange Commission to alleged accounting violations related to the company’s trademark weedkiller, a lawyer for the whistleblower said. The SEC said Tuesday it granted a reward, its second-largest since the whistleblower program’s 2011… Read More »

By Tess Stynes Canadian fertilizer giants Agrium Inc. and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. said they were in preliminary talks about a possible merger that could form a company with a total market value of more than $ 28 billion. However, the companies also said no decision had been made, and there is… Read More »