Print This PageExpanding Yield Opportunities for Farmers Worldwide
The growth of our existing technologies in 2008 laid a solid groundwork for expanding yield opportunities for farmers around the globe in 2009. For example, we saw farmers worldwide plant more than 270 million acres with at least one Monsanto trait in 2008, a 10 percent increase from 2007. This point understates the effect of multiple traits on one acre. In the United States alone, the number of corn traits sold covered more than 143 million acres, an increase of 19 percent. With this in mind, here’s a quick snapshot of our progress against our growth drivers in fiscal 2008 and our opportunities for fiscal 2009:
- U.S. Corn Business
- International Corn Business
- Global Soybean Business
- Global Cotton Business
- Vegetable Seeds Business
