Basic Materials: Monsanto

Ticker Symbol: MON

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About the company

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Monsanto (MON) is an agricultural company that focuses on providing farmers with the products and technology they need to produce food for consumers and animal feed. The current Monsanto Company was incorporated as a subsidiary of Pharmacia in 2000 and was spun off as a separate company two years later. Monsanto focuses its services into 2 main divisions. Seeds and Genomics provides seeds for corn, soybean, canola, cotton, and vegetable crops, as well as biotechnology products that help to increase the yield and quality of crops. Agricultural Productivity develops herbicide products for residential users and crop protection products for farmers.

Monsanto Competitors:

• Tier 1 Competitors: Syngenta AG (SYT), El Du Pont de Nemours & Company (DD), BASF (BASFY.PK), and Agrium Incorporated (AGU)
• Tier 2 Competitors: Bayer CropScience AG and Dow AgroSciences, both privately held

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