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Douglas J. Dorsey -
Monsanto Company - USA |
August 2002 |
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How does the
acquisition of several seed companies help create a company
larger than the sum of its parts? |
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The acquisitions
of leading seed companies like Asgrow, DEKALB, Holdens and
Corn States in the late 1990s, have provided Monsanto with the
opportunity to tailor our business and our strategy to the
needs of farmers.
As part of this strategy, we developed an "integrated
solutions" approach,
offering farmers a complete package of seeds, biotech traits
and chemistry.
With this approach, we have found we can help farmers make
their management more efficient and improve the overall
productivity of their operations.
We believe that our "integrated solutions" approach is a
unique strategy in
this industry. And, that strategy has set us apart in the past
few years.
Most of our major competitors have focused the majority of
their research
and development investments on chemicals. Monsanto, on the
other hand,
focuses the majority of our Research &Development investment
on
biotechnology and genomics, which is yielding important new
solutions for
the future.
Integrated Solutions for our customers include:
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Seed and Chem
Roundup Ready systems - corn, soybean, cotton, canola
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Seed/Chem and
Conservation Tillage
Residue-Proven varieties: soybean, corn and grain sorghum
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Seed/Chem and
Enhanced Crop Value
Processor Preferred soybean varieties and corn hybrids
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