Wheat needs technological investments to ensure long-term sustainability
For thousands of years, wheat has been relied on as a key crop due to its versatility, nutritional value, and ability to be grown across a variety of climates and conditions. Even though overall wheat production gains have fallen behind corn and rice in recent years, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in [...]
Farmers Signing Technology Use Agreements
Over the last few days I’ve seen people tweeting about Monsanto’s Technology / Stewardship Agreement (MTSA). Tweets send you to a video of two people discussing the agreement and now there is a commentary on Huffington Post. There seems to be a lot of shock that a liability statement is included in the document, and [...]
The 9 Billion-People Question
Last week, The Economist Magazine published an extensive series of articles with the summary title of “The 9-billion people question: A special report on feeding the world.” The articles examine what is going to be required to feed more than two billion additional people by 2050. A few selected quotes from the report’s introduction: • [...]
When Farmers Are Your Business, What Does Your Business Meeting Look Like?
It’s not the first annual shareholder meeting I’ve ever been to and it won’t be the last. This one was a little bit different for me – it was the first one I’d been to since joining Monsanto. My previous experiences with annual shareholder meetings at a previous job were fairly formulaic. There are specific [...]
Bruce Drager: Serving Farmers as a Technical Resource
On Dec. 2, I talked with farmer/dealer Dave Morris about his farming operations in southeastern Minnesota. Since then, I’ve been talking with Monsanto people who support what Dave does on his farm. Some help from more than a thousand miles away; others, like Bruce Drager, are somewhat closer. Bruce is Monsanto’s Technology Development Representative (TDR) [...]
