Monsanto News

CORN Jun. 1, 2012 Source: Monsanto news release As the economics of corn drive more farmers to move toward corn-on-corn production, they are often faced with additional challenges not typically encountered in a traditional corn-soybean rotation.

MONSANTO UPS ITS EARNING GUIDANCE 25% May 31, 2012 Source: Monsanto news release With seed selling seasons for North and South America now complete, Monsanto Company today cited continued strong third-quarter sales as the company again increased fiscal-year 2012 earnings guidance.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation A : Yesterday, Booz Allen's Board of Directors announced a cash dividend of $0.09 per share, the second quarterly cash dividend he company has announced.

Monsanto has announced it plans to deliver about a dozen new soybean traits to the marketplace by 2020 or the period it is referring to as the Decade of the Bean.

Research in Motion shares dropped more than 10 percent in early trading. The BlackBerry maker announced it hired JPMorgan and RBC Capital Markets to review the company's business and financial performance.

Monsanto lifts its earnings guidance for the second time in less than two months, citing better-than-expected weedkiller sales and confirmation that a jump in US corn seed sales was more than a timing issue.

Monsanto Co., the world's largest seed company, said third-quarter profit will exceed analysts' estimates on rising sales in the U.S., Brazil and Eastern Europe.

Monsanto Co. raised its earnings outlook for the fiscal year and forecast higher-than-expected fiscal third-quarter profit as the company reported strong seed sales in North and South America.

Energized by jumping seed and herbicide sales, Monsanto upped its full-year earnings guidance well above Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday.

The Metro community of Richmond saw its City Council pass a ground-breaking resolution opposing the cultivation of genetically engineered plants and trees in the City of Richmond.

Last week President Barack Obama announced a plan that puts Monsanto, as well as other large argi-businesses, in charge of increasing food supplies to malnourished regions in Africa.

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My eyes were opened to the political battle of food a couple years ago. I was assigned to write a piece of technical documentation for a document management company out of Springfield, Missouri, for Monsanto who was installing the software in their Davenport, Iowa, facility.

Precision Planting has a long history of innovations that optimize planter performance and increase yield potential, including the new FieldView technology, which offers an application designed to monitor all critical aspects of planter performance and crop data analysis.

FRANCE'S BAN ON MONSANTO CORN TRAIT REJECTED BY THE EU May 24, 2012 St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: European authorities have rejected a French government effort to ban a genetically modified corn developed by Creve Coeur-based Monsanto Co.

Monsanto acquires private equity Precision Planting for $210 million in cash and $40 million linked to a performance-based payment.

Dassel-Cokato FFA earns $1,250 in FFA Chapter Challenge, area farmers help their favorite FFA Chapter win top honors Members of the Dassel-Cokato High School FFA chapter recently made good use of the leadership skills gained through agricultural education.

MONSANTO ENTERS AG EQUIPMENT BUSINESS, ACQUIRES PRECISION PLANTING May 23, 2012 Source: Monsanto news release In line with its vision of delivering yield to farmers sustainably, Monsanto Company today announced it reached an agreement to purchase planting technology developer Precision Planting, Inc., a proven leader in improving yields through ... (more)

Kylee Alene King, of Webster City High School, was recently presented the school's highest agricultural honor, the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award, sponsored by Monsanto Company.

MONSANTO TO LAUNCH ONE DOZEN NEW SOYBEAN TRAITS May 23, 2012 Source: Monsanto Company news release Building on the successful launch of Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield trait technology, Monsanto Company is poised to deliver a dozen new soybean traits in the next decade, helping farmers boost yield to meet the growing global demands for soybeans.