Video: Passion for Sustainable Squash & Supporting Growers
Bill Johnson is a breeder with Seminis, the Monsanto global vegetable seeds brand for open field crops. He breeds squash for key vegetable markets around the globe. Bill explains the importance of breeding squash to meet different cultural expectations and shares his lifelong passion for squash, which equals the passion he sees from vegetable growers who are committed to producing the best possible products.
Video: Passion & Innovation Bring Benefits to Producers & Consumers
Ken Kmiecik breeds beans for Seminis, the Monsanto global vegetable seeds brand for open field crops. Ken discusses the implications of disease resistance on grower success – in providing higher agriculture yields and ensuring that vegetables look appealing to consumers – and talks about his own history of becoming involved in agriculture and how much he enjoys the constant challenges in his role with vegetables at Monsanto.
Indian Farmers Producing More, Conserving More and Improving Lives with Better Technology
Through innovative technology and a partnership between farmers, Monsanto and an Indian NGO, farmers are growing more, on the same amount of land, using less seed and less water. This is improving farmer’s lives, and the lives of those in the surrounding communities.
Golden Tower Pepper Improves the Lives of 30,000 Chinese Growers
Hongge Cai is a 49-year-old Chinese grower who used to feed his family by working on a two-hectare parcel of land growing corn. He, his wife, and two sons barely survived on $2,000 a year. But switching to a hybrid pepper on their farm improved their lives-along with 30,000 others.
The Future of Food
As a Brit living in the United States, I have immensely enjoyed all the attention my former stomping grounds have been receiving lately due to the Royal Wedding. Watching my future king walk down the aisle, and having my American friends and family celebrate with me, was incredible and exciting. So when His Royal Highness [...]
A Young Alabama Farmer’s Lifelong Balancing Act
By Jillian Very few college students look forward to waking up early on the weekends. Even fewer look forward to waking up to a day of manual labor in the humidity and in nearly 100 degree weather. My fiancé, Jared Etress,doesn’t mind waking up early—or working. Born and raised in Southeast Alabama, farming has always [...]
Video: Excitement for Planting Spans Across Farmers and Researchers
For the 2010 crop season, Monsanto is trying something a little different with its planting and harvest reports. We thought it’d be fun, insightful and worthwhile to follow a few people through the entire year, instead of hopping around the country only at planting and harvest. We hope this approach will allow our online audiences [...]
The Female Side of Farming – Don’t Underestimate It
By Raegan Johnson They’re there from sun up to sun down, operating machinery, cleaning equipment—whatever needs to be done. Tonya Ball, said they work just as hard—if not harder—than most of the boys. They are female farmers, and their role in agriculture is more significant than some may think. FAO estimates that women produce between [...]
After the USDA/DOJ Workshop…
We were pleased to participate in the March 12th workshop and provide more information about our business. It was a unique opportunity to highlight the investment that Monsanto and hundreds of other seed companies are making on behalf of U.S. farmers. With dozens of trait technologies available to farmers today and fifty new traits currently [...]
Social Media Coverage of Commodity Classic 2010
California Dreamin’ with Corn, Soybean, Wheat and Sorghum Growers The 2010 Commodity Classic Show kicks off today in Anaheim, California. Classic (as its known to hip ag-sters) is the annual meeting of the nation’s corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers, hosted by the National Corn Growers Association, American Soybean Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, [...]
Many factors lead to better weed control for farmers
If there’s one thing I’ve learned by talking with farmers, it’s that they have a great sense and appreciation of their farm’s history. And as a result, they have an even greater sense of how the present state of farming is better than it used to be. Marvin Borg and Jeffrey Larson are two examples [...]
How Does One Live Through Their First Beltwide?
I know the question itself sounds overly dramatic. I didn’t use that title for emphasis either. I’ve been to the Beltwide Cotton Conference every year for two decades now. It’s a conference that can test physical and mental strength. After all these years, I still remember my first Beltwide. I was in graduate school working [...]
Monsanto Response to Associated Press Article Regarding Anti-Competitive Claims
This weekend’s Associated Press article on Monsanto’s licensing agreements with companies missed the mark on the real facts behind our business and our licensing approach, including: Our business has grown tremendously over the years thanks to a number of factors – an early investment in biotechnology, adding new approaches to historic breeding, and a decision [...]
Video: A Feeling of History & Innovation, Independence & Community
The landscape differences never strike me harder than when I go to the High Plains. Whether I’m driving or flying into Lubbock, TX the view is staggering. From the sky, you can make out circles where crops are planted. On the highway, you notice the dramatic change in altitude as you drive up onto the [...]
One Farmer’s Simple Wish for Thanksgiving
Nebraska farmer Brandon Hunnicutt has a simple wish as the rest of America prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving: “Hopefully, we get to take the day off.” It’s a mid-November morning in Giltner, Neb., and Hunnicutt was harvesting corn. Typically, his father, brother, a relative and he finish harvest a couple days to a couple weeks before [...]
New York : More than Just Concrete and Sky Scrapers
By Tyne Morgan When you think of New York what pops into your mind? Maybe it’s New York City or Broadway, but it’s probably not agriculture or corn. Much to my surprise, not only can farmers reach some outstanding corn yields, but the landscape in New York is beautiful (I think the above photo says [...]
Another Cotton Pickin’ Post
By Tyne Morgan This week, it’s all about cotton — a crop I knew very little about until about a year ago. It’s used in more things than you might realize: money, cooking oil, and diapers to name a few. It’s a crop that truly is a part of our daily lives. I remember when [...]
Biotechnology’s Impact on Ag
By Tyne Morgan I remember as a little girl driving to Grandma’s house one weekend and seeing some of my family members out of the window working in the field. I remember specifically asking my mother what they were doing, and she simply told me pulling weeds out of soybeans. She also told us [...]
How Texas Farmers are Working with the H20 They Have
By Tyne Morgan Benjamin Franklin once said: “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” We all need water to survive, as do our crops. We hear all the time about the depletion of water tables, yet I don’t think farmers in areas where moisture is abundant truly understand its [...]
Tyne’s Boots Were Made for Travelin’
By Tyne Morgan It’s my favorite time of year. The leaves are changing colors and painting a beautiful picture on my frequent drives across Missouri. I love to see houses all dolled up with pumpkins, mums and gourds. My personal fall favorite is seeing the corn and soybean fields in Missouri turning golden brown. This [...]
