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Battle of the beans: Monsanto faces a fight for soy market - Duration: 11:58.
Battle of the beans: Monsanto faces a fight for soy market
Rivals BASF SE (BASFn.DE) and DowDuPont (DWDP.N) are preparing to push their own varieties of genetically modified soybeans.
At stake is control over seed supply for the next generation of farmers producing the most valuable U.S.
agricultural export.
The market has opened up as Monsanto's Roundup Ready line of seeds - engineered to tolerate the weed killer glyphosate - has lost effectiveness as weeds develop their own tolerance to the chemical.
Compounding the firm's troubles is a national scandal over crop damage linked to its new soybean and herbicide pairing – Roundup Ready 2 Xtend seeds, engineered to resist the chemical dicamba.
The newly competitive sector has sown confusion across the U.S.
farm belt, particularly among smaller firms that produce and sell seeds with technology licensed from the agrichemical giants.
Many of these sellers told Reuters they are amassing a surplus of seeds with engineered traits from multiple developers - at substantial extra cost - because they can only guess which product farmers will buy.
"Our job is to meet our customers' needs, and we don't know what those are going to be," said Carl Peterson, president of Peterson Farms Seed near Fargo, North Dakota.
"I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this.".
Monsanto has much to lose.
Soybeans are the key ingredient in feed used to fatten the world's cattle, pigs, chickens and fish.
Net sales of Monsanto's soybean seeds and traits totaled almost $2.7 billion in fiscal 2017, or about a fifth of its total net sales.
Gross profits from soybean products climbed 35 percent over 2016, beating 15 percent growth of its bigger corn seed franchise.
The firm faces multiple lawsuits, along with regulatory restrictions in some U.S.
states, because dicamba has drifted onto neighboring farms and fields and damaged crops not genetically modified to resist it.
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BASF and DowDuPont, however, have their own obstacles to overcome, fueling unprecedented uncertainty among farmers over which seeds they will plant on an estimated 90 million acres of U.S.
farmland this spring.
BASF is just entering the market, aiming to compete with an older soybean line called LibertyLink, which the firm is acquiring from Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE).
DowDuPont is eager to join the fray but needs approval from Chinese regulators before it can broadly market and sell its new soybean product, Enlist E3.
Monsanto declined comment to Reuters on competition from rivals in the soybean market.
But the firm has previously acknowledged the intensifying threat to its bottom line as rivals launch new products.
"Our competitors' success could render our existing products less competitive, resulting in reduced sales compared to our expectations or past results," Monsanto said in an annual report filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission last year.
DICAMBA DISASTER.
The name of Monsanto's new dicamba-based herbicide - XtendiMax with VaporGrip - reflects the problem it tries to solve: the chemical's tendency to vaporize and drift to neighboring fields, damaging crops.
But last summer, after farmers planted Monsanto's new dicamba-resistant seeds en masse, the herbicide damaged an estimated 3.6 million acres of soybeans, or 4 percent of all U.S.
plantings.
Monsanto maintains its new formulation of dicamba reduces drift effectively.
It blames farmers for not following spraying instructions and for illegally applying older versions of dicamba on Xtend seeds.
Despite the controversy, Xtend soybeans have sold briskly, spanning 20 million U.S.
acres in 2017, their second year of sales.
Monsanto projects that acreage will double this year, accounting for about 44 percent of all planted acres.
Still, Monsanto faces a slew of regulatory, legal and public relations challenges from the crop-damage crisis.
Regulators in Arkansas, where crops were heavily damaged in 2017, have prohibited the use of dicamba-based herbicides between dates that likely will cover the entire growing season.
Missouri, Minnesota and North Dakota have also restricted when farmers can spray dicamba.
Missouri farmer Bobby Aycock joined one of several class-action lawsuits against Monsanto after dicamba spraying by nearby farmers damaged his crops in 2016.
He then planted Xtend in 2017 to ensure that drifting dicamba could not harm his crop again.
He found another benefit at harvest time: his highest yield in 33 years of soybean farming.
Despite his lawsuit against Monsanto, Aycock plans to sow Xtend seeds again this spring.
"If something's working," he said, "I hate to change it.
BASF ENTERS BEAN BATTLE.
BASF is waiting for Monsanto and Bayer to close their proposed $63.
5 billion merger before it can take over Bayer's LibertyLink brand of seeds, which are engineered to withstand the chemical glufosinate.
The timing of the takeover, expected in the spring planting season, is awkward because farmers may have already bought seeds.
BASF aims to prevent any "customer disruption" when it assumes control of the LibertyLink brand as part of a $7 billion deal with Bayer, BASF vice president Scott Kay said in an interview.
BASF declined to elaborate further on its strategy because the purchase of LibertyLink is not yet completed.
The acquisition complements BASF's herbicide business with a seed line that should "continue to grow profitably," BASF's outgoing chief executive Kurt Bock said in October.
Bayer has sold LibertyLink in the United States since 2009, steadily gaining market share to reach about 15 percent, said Rob Schrick, who runs North American corn and soy strategy for Bayer.
The company expects the brand to capture 20 percent of the market in 2018.
BASF had a strategic urgency in the LibertyLink acquisition, said Patrick Jahnke, portfolio manager at Deka Investments, which owns BASF stock.
"The Bayer seed assets were not a bargain," Jahnke said.
"But the purchase eliminates the risk of being the only major supplier in the agro business without a seeds offering.".
WILD CARD FROM DOWDUPONT.
DowDuPont faces the greatest obstacle in the fight for soybean market share because it is waiting for Chinese regulators to approve imports of soybeans harvested from its Enlist E3 seeds.
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Am I HAPPIER IN FLORIDA than Germany? - Duration: 9:28.
At the end of last year I put out a video from our vacation to Florida.
And down in the comments under the video I saw quite a lot of people commenting that
I looked so much happier in Florida than in Germany, and that maybe I should think about
moving back there.
So am I? Should I?
Hey everyone, Dana here!
So yeah, looking back at that video from Florida I certainly agree I look pretty happy there.
But was I happier there then in Germany?
Well, yeah, sort of, but that doesn't mean I should move back.
I was on vacation in Florida.
During one of the most beautiful weeks of the year.
Almost the whole time we were there it was sunny, but not too hot, and I had traveled
to Florida from a place that had been cold and gray for weeks.
And I was in Florida to see some of my best friends and closest family.
Basically I spent a week driving around the state getting to see some of my favorite people,
getting to eat some of my favorite food, going to the beach, enjoying the sun, and not having
to worry about all those daily life worries because I was on vacation.
So yeah, I guess I would have to say that I was "happier" in terms of happiness
being this experience of feelings of like..."Eeee! Oh! Yes! Yes! Yes!"
That you get from something in the moment that triggers those feelings inside of you.
I mean, during that week in Florida there was an almost unending line-up of "eeee!"
feelings being triggered inside of me, but that was only able to be the case because
I was in Florida on vacation.
I lived in South Florida for years and believe me I was not always constantly that happy
as in the video.
As I mentioned in the video, vacationing in paradise and living in "paradise" are two
completely different things.
This might seem small and a little bit trivial, but just take the sand, for example.
On vacation I love the sand.
Sand in your hair; sand on my feet; sand on your clothes; it's all good -- you're on vacation.
But when I lived in Florida, I tried going to the beach in between jobs sometimes, or
I had school and then I went to the pool before work, and I can't speak for other people,
but when I'm trying to work and I've got sand stuck in between my toes and I'm wearing
socks and close-toed shoes or I need to put on a suit for my job but I have sunscreen
on from the pool and it's sticky and it's super hot out, those pleasant, good, feel-good
feelings did not stick around all the time like they did on vacation.
Okay, so then how about a more kind of happiness that feels like..."hmmm"
So, happiness that is less joy in the moment and more...a little more enduring.
Well, here's the thing: actually yes, I love the ocean. I'm an ocean person.
I just, the ocean speaks to me.
It doesn't have to be the Florida coast in particular, but I just love the ocean.
And I love the sun.
And I love the warmth.
So all of those things do actually have points for Florida as far as this more peaceful kind
of enduring happiness goes, because those things do really speak to me.
However, I still did move away from Florida to Europe in search of something else.
So clearly, even with the sun and the ocean, something was missing there for me.
Here in Germany, no I don't really have the sun and I don't have the warmth, and
living here in Munich I also don't have the ocean nearby.
But you know what I do have?
I am surrounded by lots of other countries quite nearby that I can just hop in the car
and drive to or hop on a train or a bus and travel to just for the weekend and learn about
so many other places.
I really felt like that was missing from my life in Florida.
And when I travel around Germany and Europe, and just also walking around Munich on a daily
basis, a lot of the buildings are really old and I personally love that.
I have a thing for history and old buildings and just the architecture here in general.
It feeds a part of my soul that was not getting fed in Florida.
So yeah, I do miss the ocean and the sun and the warmth, but...you know, cobblestone streets
and half-timbered houses just speak to me, and when I walk down those streets, especially
when I'm on vacation or even just a day vacation, a day trip, I do have that same
excited joy in the moment pleasurable good feeling happiness as in the Florida vacation video.
Yeah, I've said it before, there was just something that drew me to Europe; something
about the buildings and the cities here that speaks to me, that I can't even put into words.
And also looking at more kind of practical things I guess: living in Munich I'm also
living somewhere with public transportation and that is great because, yeah, I hate driving.
You didn't see that in the Florida video, how stressful it was for me to be driving
around South Florida. Even though I wasn't even the one driving. Stefan was driving.
But still, it's stressful in South Florida.
And also living somewhere with universal healthcare.
I have mentioned that before.
I am so grateful to have the kind of healthcare that I have access to here.
And more!
So on both a practical side and on a kind of feeding my soul side, living in Germany
feels right to me.
But okay, wait now.
Besides the weather and the beach are there other things I miss about Florida as far as
this more enduring happiness goes? Yes. For sure.
I miss the food in Florida for one.
Oh my God, I miss the food in South Florida almost every day of my life.
And the friendliness, the outgoing friendliness of the people in the grocery stores, or just
when you're out and about.
Friendly outgoing customer service.
And I super miss people going out of their way to strike up a friendly conversation with
me for basically no reason at all except to just have a quick little chat with me about
whatever and then go on with their day.
I really, really miss that.
So yeah, basically there are things, of course, that I like about both places.
But right now living here just feels more like I'm living in the right place that
I'm supposed to be living in right now.
If that makes any sense?
So my question for you is: do you see a difference in these kinds of happiness, or is it all
the same to you?
And where do you feel happiest, in either sense of the word?
Please let me know in the comments below.
Thanks so much for watching.
I really hope that you enjoyed this video.
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And also I want to give a really, really, really big thank you so much to our patrons
on Patreon, who help make these videos possible.
Thank you so much for your support.
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the description box below.
Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!
Where do you feel happiest?
Either...yeah.
In, I miss about Florida the...what?
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Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From (live) - Duration: 3:08.
Ooh, and it's alright and it's coming along
We gotta get right back to where we started from
Love is good, love can be strong
We gotta get right back to where started from
Do you remember that day - that sunny day
When you first came my way
I said no one could take your place
And if you get hurt (if you get hurt)
By the little things I say
I can put that smile back on your face
Ooh, and it's alright and it's coming along
We gotta get right back to where we started from
Love is good, love can be strong
We gotta get right back to where started from
A love like ours (a love like ours)
Can never fade away
You know it's only just begun
You give me your love (give me your love)
I just can't stay away - no,no
No, you are the only one
Ooh, and it's alright, and it's coming along
We gotta get right back to where we started from
Love is good, love can be strong
We gotta get right back to where started from
You give me your love (give me your love)
I just can't stay away - no, no
You know you are the only one
Here we go...
Oh, and it's alright and it's coming along
We gotta get right back to where we started from
Love is good, love can be strong
We gotta get right back to where started from
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