Lower Roundup Costs & Jobless Rate Climbs
Lower Roundup Costs & Jobless Rate Climbs plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
Monsanto is lowering the price of Roundup in response to a spike in the supply of cheaper generic alternatives. Some generics had been running about $40 a gallon and they are now around $10. Monsanto says their Roundup will now be costing producers between $11 and $13 according to Chief Financial Officer Carl Casale.
CASALE: If you think about our strategy going forward, it’s a volume driven strategy. We’ll be on the order of slightly more than 250 million gallons of volume in 2010, that will go to 300 million by 2012.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
We’ll soon be heading into my absolute favorite time of year, fall. The air is just a little crisp in the mornings; the afternoons however are still nice and warm. Fall also brings to mind fond recollections of going with my Grandparents to pick apples. We drove nearly an hour from our small
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.