Can you say monopoly?

Monsanto

the largest of all seed traders owns:

DeKalb (1995)

Sementes

Agroceres

Custom Farm Seed

DeKalb Ayala

Ayala

AgriPro Wheat

Hybri Tech Europe

Pau Euralis

Seminis

Cargill Intl. Seed Division

First Line

Jacob Hartz (1995)

Asgrow

Holdens

Renessen Cargill

Calgene

Cargill North America

Agracetus

PBIC

Unilever

Monsoy

FT Sementes

Delta Pine Land

Syngenta Global Cotton Division

Emergent Genetics

Paras

Mahendra

Daehnfeldt

ASI (American Seeds own all below and was taken over by Monsanto)

Channel Bio

Crows

Midwest Seed Genetics

Wilson Seeds

Gold Country

Heritage Seeds from Queensland, Australia

NC Plus Hybrids

SpecialtyHybrids

Fontanelle

Stewart Seeds

Trelay Seeds

Stone Seeds

Corn Belt

Advanta Canola

Hubner Seed

Lewis Hybrids

REA

Moweaqua Seeds

iCORN

Jung

BoCa

Interstate Canola

Sensako

Agroeste

CDM Mandiyu

Ciagro

Carnia

Diener

Sieben

Kruger

Trisler

Campbell Seed

Fielders Choice

Heartland Hybrids

Hawkeye

Nebraska Irrigated

Limagrain Canada

Poloni

ISG

Western

Peotec

Mahyco

Terrazawa

DeRuiter

Aly Participacoes

Marmot

Cotton States

Stoneville

Corn States Hybrid

Corn States Intl

Ecogen

CNDK

China Seed

EID Parry Rallis

Bayer

the German based pharmaceutical and chemical giant controls all these seed companies:

Gustafson 
Nunhems (1995)

Paragon 
Seed

Ex 
Aventis

AgrEvo 


Schering 


Proagro 


Sementes Ribeiral

Sementes Fartura

Mitla Pesquisa

Granja4Irmaos 


AgrEvo Cotton PGS 


PlanTec Biotech 


GeneXSorghum 


CottonSeedIntl

Sunseeds 


KWS 


Hoechst

Nunza (1986)

Rhone Poulenc

the french petro chemical giant has these under its belt


Leen De Mos


RioColorado

California Planting Cotton


Reliance Genetics 


Assoc Farmers Delinting

NideraSemillas 
Nidera


DuPont

Pioneer

Curry Seed

Shandong Denghai Pioneer

Denghai Dunhuang

Dunhuang Pioneer

DoisMarcos

Hybrinova

ProteinTech. Int.

Optimum Quality Grains

Syngenta:

SPS

GoldenHarvest

Goldsmith

Resource Seeds

Zeraim Gedera

Sanbei

Fischer

Advanta NA Corn Soybeans

Garst

Interstate Payco

AgriPro

PSAGenetics

Gutwein

DiaEngei

Novartis

CibaGeigy

Sandoz

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

Mogen

ExSeed Thurston

Maisadour

Koipesol Agrosem Agra

Eridania Beghin Say

Sturdy Grow

Land

O'Lakes

Agritrading

NorthrupKing

Limagrain Advanta EU Vegetable

Westhove

HarrisMoran

Clause

Biogemma

RhoBio

Agreliant

Wensman

Producers Hybrids

Lochow Petkus (1967)

CPB Twyford

Hazera

Carl Sperling

Kyowa

Innoseeds

Bio Seeds

Vanden Berg

Germains Cotton

Holland Cottonseed

Brownfield Seed Delinting

Helena Cotton

Indusem

Agroceres

Barham

Petoseed (1995)

RoyalSluis (1995)

Choong Ang

Horticeres

Bruinsma (1994)

Genecorp(1994)

Hungnong

Green Leaf Genetics

Verdia

Avesthagen

Conrad Fafard

Long Reach AWB

BASF

Svalof Weibull

Swaghat

Cee Kay

Australian Grain Tech

Yuan Longping

Dow

Dairyland Seed

Mycogen

Bio Plant Research

RenzeHybrids

Agromen

MTI

Sudwestsaat

Brodbeck

DuoMaize

Triumph

Empresa Brasileira

Hytest ABI Alfalfa

Specialty Grains

Cooperative BusinessIntl

Agriliance

Cenex Harvest

Farmland Industries

Cenex

Harvest States

SOYGENETICS

FFRCoop

Verneuil Holding

Morgan

United Agriseeds

Hibridos Colorado

Biogenetica De Milho

Dinamilho Carol

Phytogen

JG Boswell

Illinois Foundation

Advanced Agri Traits