Brewery's boycott talk puts halt to biotech rice

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Anheuser-Busch Cos. has dropped its threat to boycott Missouri's rice crop after a biotechnology firm agreed to grow its genetically engineered rice farther away from commercial rice farms in the state's Bootheel.

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