Commodity Classic 2009 Bloggers

Monsanto’s Future Ag Journalist Fellowship Program allows student journalists the chance to go behind the scenes of various shows, and give viewers their perspective of the event through their blogs. 
Brooke Hoelscher is a junior at Texas A&M majoring in Agriculture Communications and Journalism: http://brookescommodityinsider.blogspot.com
Megan Ott is a sophomore at the University of Illinois majoring in [...]

My New Year’s Resolution – Status Update

I was really excited to see that Craig Zucker, one of my friends from college, is putting his entrepreneurial spirit to good use with launching an environmentally friendly brand of bottled “filtered” water called Tap’d in NYC.  Most people don’t realize the environmental impacts of some of the name brand bottled waters such as emissions due to transportation [...]

Monsanto’s Sustainable Yield Initiative

Here’s some information about Monsanto’s sustainable yield initiative.  The background music is a little stuffy (mute it), but the content is really good.  I think it gives a lot of insight about how agriculture will need to respond to the challenges of the growing world population in the years ahead:

Global Commercial Emerging Leaders Program

I’m officially 3 months into my new job at Monsanto!  The time has flown by – and I can’t believe that it’s been so long since I’ve written anything – I promise not to let this much time go by between posts again.  Things are going really well, I like it here a lot and [...]