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General Monsanto News
2011
25 August 2011 - New Country Lead for Monsanto South Africa Monsanto Africa integrates entire business – Effective 1 September 2011, Kobus Steenekamp will be the new Country Lead – Monsanto South Africa.
May 2011 - Monsanto opens third phase of maize seed plant – The third phase of Monsanto’s technologically advanced maize seed plant in Lictenburg was recently opened by by Kobus Lindeque, area Director of Mosanto in Africa.
2010
16 November 2010 - GENUITY® — the best decision – Monsanto’s range of advanced, innovative products for maize, cotton and soya are now branded under one name - GENUITY®.
16 November 2010 - Monsanto SA receives cultivation approval for MON89034 (Yieldgard II) and MON89034 x NK603 (stacked trait) in South Africa. – Maize farmers in South Africa are now one step closer to planting improved next-generation technologies to support the world’s growing demands for food and feed.
18 August 2010 - No Delta18RF (Roundup Ready Flex) available for the coming planting season – There will be no Delta18RF (Roundup Ready Flex) cotton available in the market for the coming planting season. Monsanto DeltaPine will not make any seed available as quality tests indicated that the quality of the seed does not adhere to the stringent quality requirements set by Monsanto.
June 2010 - Pollination Variation Problem in Maize Solved – Research conducted during the past season, 2009/10, by representatives and agronomists of Monsanto into pollination variations in experienced last season proved beyond doubt that the pollination variations was a genetic deviation that occurred when the parent lines were reversed. The problem has been solved and seed of the DKC78-45BR, one of the most popular cultivars on the market, will again be available for the 2010/2011 season.
February 2010 - Monsanto and BASF — working together for better results!
2009
23 June 2009 - GDARD announces Biotechnology Awards – The Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD) has today announced a comprehensive incentive scheme for those involved in the Biotechnology sector in the region.
4 June 2009 - Constitutional Court hearing – In August 2002, the Biowatch Trust, a non-governmental organisation, launched court proceedings in the High Court, demanding access to a very broad range of information held by the Registrar of Genetic Resources. Biowatch’s request for information was framed extremely broadly and did not identify specific information sought by Biowatch.
March, 2009 - Monsanto gives away Maxxum 140 CAB (104kW) tractor at gala evening – The 50 finalists of the DEKALB-tractor competition and other guest from the agricultural paternity attended a gala evening at Kievits Kroon outside Pretoria on Friday 13 March to find out who the winners of the three tracters would be.
January, 2009 - INMED Nutrition program overcomes environment, culture to improve children's health in South Africa - Programme supported by the Monsanto Fund – More than 10,000 school children in South Africa's Orange Farm settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg have something they never had before – fresh produce for lunch from gardens at their own schools.
2008
October, 2008 - Maize producers to prepare themselves for farm inspections – Crop biotechnology brought a new dimension into grain production. Gene characteristics such as herbicide resistance or Roundup Ready® crops, stalk borer protection or YieldGard®-crops, have been available over the past couple of years in South Africa in crops such as cotton, soya beans and maize. This technology does not only increase yields, but also gives the producer added benefits with regard to management and environmental practices.
September, 2008 - News release by the Northern Branch of the Agricultural Writers SA on the regional awards for the Farmer and Agriculturalist of the Year 2008
Sponsored by: ABSA and Monsanto.
July, 2008 - Monsanto is pleased to announce that the sale of Monsanto's South African Wheat Business (Monsanto Agriculture PTY Ltd) to a management group led by Patrick Graham and Francois Koekemoer has recently been completed. This completes a process which was started with the Monsanto announcement in October 2007 of the intention by Monsanto to exit wheat in South Africa.
2007
March, 2007 -Monsanto is launching a new online Weed Resistance Risk Assessment Program In line with its commitment to product stewardship, Monsanto is launching a new online Weed Resistance Risk Assessment Program for growers who use Roundup Ready weed control technology. Located on the Web at www.weedtool.com, the one-of-a-kind risk assessment program was created to help farmers gauge the risk of developing glyphosate-resistant weeds in their fields. In addition, it offers best farming practices to manage those risks without limiting yield potential.
March, 2007 -Maize containing both insect resistance and herbicide Monsanto SA receives general release permit for maize containing both insect resistance and herbicide tolerance traits.
2006
August, 2006 -Organisational Announcement MonsantoAndrew Bennett will be relocating from South Africa to Switzerland as from 1 September as Europe-Africa Biotech Marketing Lead. Kobus Steenekamp will become responsible for both Agchem and Biotechnology Marketing in the position of Africa Agchem and Biotechnology Marketing Lead, effective from 1 September 2006.
August, 2006 -GM Maize Pushes Up Yields A Free State farmer has netted an extra R1 million profit, thanks to the higher yields reaped by planting Bt maize. He is Theunis Pretorius, who farms with his brother Gerrit on their family farm, Smalfontein, at Ficksburg.
April, 2006 -Project Batswa ko pele - Those that walk in front In the past few years it was often found that the income derived from maize and/or sunflower cultivation were dismal and it even resulted in a deficit for many farmers.
February, 2006 -The official opening of Thobontle will be on 23 February 2006 at Lichtenburg. This new plant is one of the biggest in Africa and will have a significant impact on the seed business in South Africa and is clearly a mile stone in the history of Monsanto.
January, 2006 - AgriBEE Project Earning Foreign Exchange. A classic example of a highly successful profitable AgriBEE project, and one earning South Africa valuable foreign exchange, has been developed by Monsanto with an emergent farmer to produce GM maize seed under contract.
2005
December, 2005 - Monsanto makes available hybrid seed for 140 000 farm families in Malawi . Monsanto announced today its decision to donate 700 metric tons of quality hybrid maize seeds in Malawi, an equivalent donation of $840,000.
November, 2005 - Monsanto Director the 2005 Agriculturist of the Year. Kobus Lindeque, Africa Director of Monsanto was recently recognised for his contribution to the advancement and understanding of biotechnology as was announced as the 2005 Agriculturist of the year by the Agricltural Writers Assocation of South Africa.
September, 2005 - Roundup Ready Corn 2. New Roundup Ready logo.
September, 2005 - Monsanto Staff in Bethlehem Recevies Top Safety Recognition.Monsanto's Wheat Breeding Station in Bethlehem, has received the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star certification - the agency's top safety classification.
September, 2005 - Monsanto South Africa has donated U$ 1 million (R7 million) worth of maize to drought stricken Malawi.The executive Management of Monsanto announced that the company would donate U$ 1 million (about R7 million) worth of maize to the World Food Programme for the purchase, transport and distribution of maize the drought stricken Malawi.
August, 2005 - Application for the General Release of Genetically Modified organisms. Monsanto South Africa (Pty) Ltd. P.O.Box 69933, Bryanston 2021 hereby announces its intention to apply for the General Release of second generation genetically modified cotton varieties.
May, 2005 - Agricultural Writers Farmer of the Year
Gert Pretorius, Monsanto's Chairman in South Africa, was elected as the Agricultural Writers' Association of South Africa's Faremr of the Year for 2004. The agricultural media recently visited Gert on his farm.
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