Impactful Careers: Think Agriculture
Developing a successful career in a field that inspires you can be an incredibly rewarding experience. If you were to design your perfect job, it would most likely include interesting, exciting work that motivates and inspires you every day...
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CTIC Celebrates 30 Years
Thirty years ago, conservation tillage had started to take hold, and it needed a stronger advocacy voice to promote the practices and benefits of reduced erosion and water runoff. Farmers and the agricultural industry joined to form the Conservation Tillage Information Center to help farmers.....
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Improving Lives. Addressing Root Causes.
The Monsanto Fund released its 2010-2011 Monsanto Fund Report in early November. The report contains several feature stories that showcase how the Monsanto Fund’s contributions have helped to improve lives by providing access to resources like agricultural training, water and....
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Global Harvest Initiative's 2012 GAP Report
On October 17, the Global Harvest Initiative(GHI) released its 2012 Global Agricultural Productivity Report ® (GAP Report®) at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa....
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Feeding the World
The Economist conference on Feeding the World: Asia’s prospect of plenty takes place on September 27, 2012 in Hong Kong. Monsanto is participating in this inaugural event. We are committed to working with farmers around the world...
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Responding To Drought In East Africa
In the Horn of Africa, the worst drought in 60 years foretold comprehensive famine in 2011. By the time the United Nations declared the first famine in nearly 30 years, more than 13 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda needed food...
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Changing Can Be Challenging
Change is difficult. Changing behavior, processes and technology along an entire supply chain and keeping all the players satisfied can be close to impossible...
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Bollgard Cotton: Improving Cotton and Lives Around the World
Fifteen years ago, Bollgard® cotton technology became the first product in the marketplace to provide built-in protection against bollworm pests. This means reduced pesticide sprays, reduced costs and increased yields for farmers...
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Better Farming Practices Help Improve Lives of Kenyan Women Farmers
The challenges are daunting for farmers in Ngorano, Kenya: lack of fertilizer, poor quality seeds, inconsistent water availability and rudimentary knowledge of agronomic practices. Monsanto employee Zellipah Githui knows the world of subsistence farming all too well...
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Helping Farmers Recover From Catastrophic Frost in Sinaloa, Mexico
Located east of the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, between the Gulf of California and the mountain spurs of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the fertile Sinaloa valley in Mexico produces 25 percent of Mexico’s annual corn crop, which is 50 percent of the corn used for tortillas, Mexico’s main food source...
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Cotton Farmers Produce More in India’s Vidarbha Region
Vidarbha, located in Maharashtra region in central India, is famous for producing cotton, oranges and soybeans. Crops are predominantly rain fed. And when the region endures frequent droughts, the crop yields and farmers’ incomes drop...
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Conserving Water Through Fontanelle’s Aqua View Initiative
Calling the Aqua View system the best ROI on the farm is a sentiment echoed by many irrigation farmers in the water-challenged regions of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. With limited rainfall and water restrictions, these farmers increasingly require a system that maximizes water use and customizes the seeds and planting to their specific needs...
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