Monsanto Sweeps Into Curling House

Monsanto Canada has extended its involvement as the presenting sponsor of several premier curling championships in Canada through 2013. This new multiyear agreement makes Monsanto the presenting sponsor of the 2010 Ford world women’s curling championship, March 20 to 28 in Swift Current, Sask., the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Tim Hortons Brier (Canadian men’s curling

Campaign Against GM Alfalfa Intensifies

“The genie’s out of the bottle.” – JIM LINTOTT, MANITOBA FORAGE COUNCIL Acoalition of 80 farm and food organizations, including Manitoba forage producers, is calling for an immediate halt to field testing of genetically modified alfalfa in Canada. The groups want existing test plots of GM alfalfa uprooted and full-scale commercialization of the crop blocked.


Monsanto Exceeds Profit Expectations

Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed company, posted better-than-expected profit April 2 as revenues grew in its key corn and soybean seed businesses and it benefited from a low tax rate. Monsanto, a leader in the development of genetically altered crops, said net income was $1.092 billion, or $1.97 a share for the second quarter,

Viterra Joins Winter Wheat Campaign

A program aiming for 100,000 new acres of winter cereals seeded across Western Canada this fall now has Viterra on board as its “premier delivery partner.” Ducks Unlimited and Bayer CropScience in mid-January launched “Winter Cereals: Sustainability in Action,” a program to increase winter cereals acres across North America, to which Bayer pledged $20 million


Next-Generation RR Soybeans Arrive

Afarmer southwest of London, Ont. became the first in Canada to take delivery of soybeans with the Roundup Ready 2 Yield trait, Monsanto Canada said March 26. Grant Boyd, a corn and soybean grower at Dutton, Ont., bought the seed through his local DeKalb dealer. Roundup Ready 2 Yield seed combines Roundup Ready crops’ genetically

In Brief… – for Mar. 26, 2009

Food for work: Bangladesh will sell cheaper rice to millions of garment workers because the country’s prime export industry has been hit by the global economic downturn, a government minister said March 18. The country’s textile industry – which employs 2.5 million, mostly women, workers – requested a bailout as competition in global markets increases.


Monsanto Canada Launches 2009 Scholarship Program

Monsanto Canada will once again of fer between 60 and 70 scholarships to Grade 12 graduating students from farm families who plan to pursue postsecondary education in agriculture or forestry in the fall of 2009. Mo n s a n t o Canada Opportunity Scholarships are available to eligible students entering their first year of

Curling Clubs Get Financial Support

The two-sheet Holland Curling Club located in southwest Manitoba is this year’s $10,000 grand prize winner of Monsanto Canada’s “Imagine a Better House” Community Curling Club program. The 40-member curling club, established in 1892, came out on top after sharing their compelling story about the need for a facelift to their 116-year-old club that is


Pushing GMOs to feed the planet

“How do the starving destitute react? Well often and not surprisingly they react with violence.” – joe clark Co-operation and innovation, including new genetically modified crops, are needed to feed the world as it grows and gets richer, speakers told CropLife Canada and the Grain Growers of Canada meeting in Ottawa last month. “This combination