In business news, the Anheuser-Busch Company has announced it will stop buying rice from Missouri if genetically modified, drug-making crops are allowed to be grown in the state. The St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch is the nation’s largest brewer and buyer of rice. The company Ventria Biosciences is seeking permission to grow 200 acres of rice engineered to produce human proteins that can make drugs. Last month the world’s largest rice miller–Riceland Foods–asked federal regulators to deny Ventria a permit.