REPORT: Monsanto made a $45 billion offer to buy its Swiss rival

The world's largest GMO company reportedly wants to buy another huge agribusiness, Bloomberg reports. Monsanto, best known for its patented genetically modified seed products and pesticides, has apparently submitted a $45 billion bid for Switzerland-based Syngenta, a company that produces crop chemicals. Bloomberg cites people familiar with the deal who say Monsanto offered the equivalent of about $488 per share for the company (450 Swiss francs) which, at the time of this writing, was a roughly...