News Archive: Monsanto

DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

Aug 25, 2011

The DEKALB 100th Anniversary Bike, which will be unveiled at the 2011 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., will travel across approximately 10 states on a 14-20 stop Chopper Tour around rural America following the Farm Progress Show reveal. The internet auction for the DEKALB 100th Anniversary Bike will launch in January 2012 to coincide with the DEKALB brand anniversary month, and the DEKALB 100th Anniversary Bike will be presented to the winner at the 2012 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

Monsanto and Atlas Venture Enter Alliance to Invest in Innovative Life Sciences Companies

Apr 14, 2011

Under the agreement, Monsanto will work with Atlas to identify strategic investments in a number of technology focus areas within agriculture to support and complement Monsanto’s interests and potential growth areas, including genomics, informatics and biology. For Atlas, this collaboration provides access to technology capabilities and insight that bring a unique perspective to its investment process. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

BASF and Monsanto Take Dicamba Tolerant Cropping System Collaboration to the Next Level

Mar 14, 2011

The agreement will facilitate further development work and subsequent commercialization of a dicamba tolerant system, which includes innovative dicamba formulations proprietary to BASF and the dicamba tolerant trait for soybeans, which is proprietary to Monsanto. The system is expected to be introduced in the United States and Canada in the middle of the decade, pending regulatory approvals. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

Applications Now Open For Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program to Improve Research in Wheat and Rice Breeding

Nov 11, 2010

Students from anywhere in the world can complete their Ph.D. program at any university in the world that grants a Ph.D. in rice or wheat breeding. Part of the research program must be completed in one of the following developed areas: Australia, Canada, the United States or Western Europe if students are enrolled in a developing country university. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

Beneforté™ Broccoli Offers Consumers Improved Nutritional Benefits

Oct 18, 2010

Beneforté broccoli is the result of more than 10 years of plant breeding. It combines the best attributes of commercial broccoli with a wild broccoli variety found in southern Italy. This wild variety has a unique, increased ability to produce the phytonutrient glucoraphanin, which is naturally present in broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and kale. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

Monsanto and AgraQuest to Collaborate on Development of New Seed Treatments

Sep 13, 2010

The three-year deal is aimed at developing seed treatment products to control nematodes, disease and insects, and enhance plant growth and yield, using AgraQuest’s collection of microbes. This technology could help Monsanto researchers develop additional modes of action for insect, nematode, and disease control. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

InterGrain and Monsanto Announce New Wheat Breeding Collaboration

Aug 26, 2010

Longer term, the collaboration also will provide InterGrain with access to biotechnology traits currently being developed for wheat, which Monsanto would expect to introduce in the next decade, pending appropriate regulatory approvals. Monsanto is working on developing important traits for wheat farmers around the globe including drought tolerance and yield improvement. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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DEKALB® Brand to Auction a Custom Chopper with Proceeds Going to the American Red Cross

Monsanto (MOM Article)

Mar 23, 2010

Monsanto is an agricultural company. We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world be successful, produce healthier foods, better animal feeds and more fiber, while also reducing agriculture’s impact on our environment. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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