Five years ago. (This Month in AGRI Marketing ...).* Monsanto The Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as "Roundup". Co., St. Louis, has reached separate agreements with DeKalb Genetics genetics, scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain traits from generation to generation in 1856, it was not until the discovery and detailed study of Corp., DeKalb, Ill., and Delta and Pine Land Co., Scott, Miss., to acquire the two seed companies. Under the agreement with DeKalb, Monsanto will offer $100 for each share of DeKalb stock that Monsanto does not already own. Total cost will be about $2.5 billion. * Swingster, Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo., and K-Products, Orange City, Iowa Orange City is a city in Sioux County, Iowa, United States. The population was 5,582 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sioux CountyGR6. , have agreed to a merger in which K-Products will join Swingster as one of the companies owned by American Marketing Industries Inc., Kansas City, Mo. |
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