About
Monsanto
Company

Business Purpose and Mission

Our Vision: Abundant Food and a Healthy Environment

Our Mission: For the worlds food producers, we work to deliver products and solutions to help them reach their goals in ways that:

• Meet the worlds growing food & fiber needs
• Conserve natural resources
• Improve the environment

Principles:

• Taking ownership of our companys success
• Delivering highest quality products and technology
• Building strong relationships
• Creating a great place to work
• Conducting ourselves with integrity

Our Operating Principles: We are the stewards of Monsantos success. As such, we are each accountable to a broad range of groups that give us license to operate: our shareholders, our customers, our communities, consumers, society and each other. We are committed to living by these principles:

• Taking ownership of our company's success by being accountable for:
  • Achieving Results
  • Working with our customers to create value
  • Making wise decisions
  • Stewardship of company resources
  • Focus on our top priorities
  • Discipline in our process
    
• Delivering the highest quality products and technology through:
  • Sound & innovative science
  • Excellent product & environmental stewardship
  • Embracing safety & health in everything we do
  • Customer-driven solutions
    
• Building strong relationships through:
  • Customer involvement
  • Consultation with stakeholders
  • Collaboration & partnering
  • Sharing our research and knowledge
  • Listening to diverse views
    
• Creating a great place to work by:
  • Clarity of direction, roles & accountabilities
  • Fostering innovation, creativity & learning
  • Rewarding & recognizing our people
  • Ensuring diversity of people & thought Inclusive teamwork
  • Respecting & trusting each other
    
• Conducting ourselves with integrity based on:
  • Courage
  • Respect
  • Candor
  • Honesty
  • Humility
  • Consistency
  • Keeping our promises

  Monsanto is unique in the American agricultural industry -- not only in our strategy and approach, but in our ability to deliver on our strategy. We're applying our unmatched capabilities to offer farmers integrated solutions that can combine seeds, biotechnology traits, and crop protection products. Monsanto is making the most of its strengths and maintaining growth, despite delays in commercialisation of biotechnology products in some markets. The company is well-positioned to sustain its strong performance going forward.

  Our research efforts have already resulted in rapid innovation that has transformed the marketplace, and we expect an even stronger upside from our global genomics, biotech and breeding results in the future.

  Monsanto is building for long-term growth by using its leading position in technology to develop higher-value products. By focusing its R&D efforts on seeds and traits, the company can develop new seeds both through biotechnology and through conventional breeding.

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