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Twenty years ago (1986).


* Rhone-Poulenc (one of the legacy companies of Bayer CropSciences) acquires Union Carbide's agricultural products company.

* Steiger Tractor Steiger was founded near Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, USA by Douglas and Maurice Steiger, brothers who needed a reliable, high-powered, four-wheel drive tractor, in the 1950s. The tractor division of Steiger Farms was moved to Fargo, North Dakota in 1969.  Inc. is acquired by Tenneco and will be consolidated into the company's J.I. Case unit.

* Several promotions are announced at American Cyanmid (one of the legacy companies of BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California)
BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company)
BASF Builders Association of South Florida
) including: Dennis McCormick, RSM RSM (in Britain) regimental sergeant major  for the mid-south; Dale Locken, Mktg Mgr--Counter; William Rouse, Assoc Prod Mgr--Counter; Ronald Rowcotsky, Prod Mgr--Scepter, and Robert Ratliff, Prod Mgr--Prowl/Scepter.

* Purina Mills is acquired by The British Petroleum Co. for $545 million.

* Land O'Lakes
This article is about the growers cooperative; for the Florida town, see Land O' Lakes, Florida, for the Wisconsin town, see Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin.
Land O'Lakes
 acquires 24 of IMC's (a legacy company of Mosaic) 53 retail fertilizer outlets.
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