Deadline looms in $750M genetically modified rice settlement

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Rice grow­ers who lost sales after genet­i­cally mod­i­fied rice seed mis­tak­enly entered the U.S. mar­ket five years ago have until Mon­day to sign on to a $750 mil­lion set­tle­ment pro­posed by the com­pany blamed for the problem.