2009 Best Places to Work in IT

The national Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) and WorkplaceDiversity.com recently announced that Monsanto was one of 11 winners of the 2009 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology Award. Monsanto has been recognized for this award for the second year in a row.  This year’s winners also included Allstate Insurance, American Airlines, Compuware, Eli Lilly and [...]

Monsanto Global Pledge Awards

At Monsanto, the Monsanto Pledge defines what we believe and how we make decisions. It is the heart of our identity as a company. It is our commitment to employees, our customers, community members, other key stakeholders and the public, to behave ethically and responsibly. Our commitment to having integrity in everything we do.
And every [...]

Associate Brand Communications Manager – Genuity

We’re in the process of launching our highly anticipated Genuity brand, a family of traits that exhibit drought tolerance, cold tolerance, nitrogen use efficiency, etc., which will help famers increase yields while reducing their consumption of water, land, energy, and other finite natural resources.
I’m most excited about the Genuity First-Generation Drought-Tolerant Corn (http://www.monsanto.com/droughttolerantcorn/default.asp) which will [...]

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: