Monsanto Company. (Marketing News).

Monsanto Company, St. Louis, announced a new $500 million financing program for its key U.S. distributors, developed in cooperation with Bank One. Under the program, Monsanto will refer its interested U.S. distributors to a lending company administered by Bank One to fund their purchases of Monsanto products at attractive interest rates. "This program will provide participating distributors with lower financing costs as compared with other typical programs available to them," said Carl Casale, vice president of Monsanto's North American operations. Casale said this program also offers distributors extended terms.