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Monsanto Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides agricultural products for farmers principally in the United States. It operates in two segments, Seeds and Genomics, and Agricultural Productivity. The Seeds and Genomics segment produces corn, soybeans, canola, and cotton seeds, as well as vegetable and fruit seeds, including tomato, pepper, eggplant, melon, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, beans, broccoli, onions, and lettuce. This segment also develops biotechnology traits that assist farmers in controlling insects and weeds, as well as provide genetic material and biotechnology trait

• Monsanto reported record net sales

On December 27th of last year I made a call on Monsanto (MON) at $112.43 per share on theupdown.com and since is up 26.86%. There was plenty of static with the call as the name had already had a pretty good run up. I have owned it in my brokerage account since it traded for $66.13. Even at this price I still believe the stock is a long term play on world agricultural technologies. Its hard to believe on March 10th of 2003 this stock sold for just $7.03 a share. These types of runs are generally not long lived, and investors have lost huge sums of money not taking any

After a month long sell-off that saw Mosaic Company (MOS), Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (POT), and Monsanto Company (MON) dip from 4-15%, the agricultural chemical companies have rebounded to new highs within the last two weeks. Monsanto is still close to a new high with Mosaic and Potash striking new highs on Wednesday.

As someone who is not afraid to point out what is wrong with the economy today, it is refreshing for me to be able to write about what is working well in corporate America. If the United States is going to solve its current account imbalances and boost its G.D.P. to rival the world's growth rate, domestic corporations may need to take a lesson by turning their ears (pun intended) towards a company like Monsanto (MON).

What we do best in this country is technological innovation, and there are few enterprises that exemplify that better than the world's largest company focused on seeds and tra

On June 4, the company announced a three-point commitment to help increase global food product

Monsanto (MON) is by far the world's largest leading producer of bioengineered crops. In fact, the company's market share is so huge that experts estimate that Monsanto has developed 70% of the world's insect- and herbicide-resistant crops.

Do you realize what this means?

That's like having a 70% market share in the one commodity that every human being on Earth needs to survive—FOOD.

When you add the fact that demand for ethanol is putting powerful upward pressure on the price of corn, you can see why the company is about to hit the jackpot again as sales to China and India

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Farmers are paying more for supplies to grow their crops and they're passing those rising costs onto consumers. The Wall Street Journal reports that farmers paid 65% more for fertilizer in April 2008. Fuel, the second-fastest rising cost, is up 43%. And seed prices have risen 30%. But you can hedge your rising food costs by investing in companies that profit from rising fertilizer prices.

Farmers say too much market power is concentrated in the hands of a small group of companies in the U.S., Canada and Russia that dominate global

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