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Events
Roundup Ready 2 Yield™ Press Conference
Friday, February 29 – 12:30 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Audio Replay (18 minutes)
For the 2009 growing season, Monsanto is launching its second generation soybean technology – Roundup Ready 2 YieldTM. Four years of field comparisons have demonstrated that Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans deliver a yield advantage of 7 percent to 11 percent over the first-generation Roundup Ready Soybeans. Specific product introduction plans will be outlined at the press conference.
David Nothmann, Roundup Ready 2 Yield Product Launch Lead, will discuss 2007 field trials, the advanced gene mapping technology responsible for the brand’s top-end yield potential and specifics for the 2009 launch.
David Sasse of Lincoln, IL, and Alan Karkosh of Hudson, Iowa, both Roundup Ready 2 Yield production growers in 2007, will also attend the press conference to talk about their experience.
Monsanto Mobile Technology Unit to Visit Commodity Classic in
Nashville, TN, Feb. 28-March 1
Monsanto invites media to tour its new Mobile Technology Unit (MTU), a unique showcase of agricultural science and innovation, when it appears at the Commodity Classic show in Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Booth 272, Thursday-Saturday, February 28-March 1, 2008. The MTU will host tours open to all Commodity Classic Show attendees.
Special MTU tour times for media: The MTU will be giving a pre-show tour for media at 1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. Thursday, February 28th. For media unable to take a tour at these times, we can make arrangements to accommodate you at other times during the show.
The Mobile Technology Unit is a 53-foot long, 1,000 square-foot interactive display featuring Monsanto's latest advances in seed breeding, biotechnology and new product development designed to help farmers be successful.
Media wishing to tour the Monsanto Mobile Technology Unit should contact Carly Kaufman, Osborn & Barr Communications, at 314-236-6901 (office) or 314-610-6372 (cell).
