Monsanto Supports Canadian Foodgrains Bank

WINNIPEG - Mar 3/05 - SNS -- Monsanto Canada will again offer up to CDN $100,000 worth of agricultural inputs for Canadian Foodgrains Bank community growing projects.

No-fee Roundup Ready(R) technology, Roundup(R) brand agricultural herbicides, DEKALB seed and other Monsanto products will be available to the more than 200 community projects in Western and Eastern Canada that are growing a crop for donation to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

Growing projects interested in securing inputs for the 2005 planting season should contact their local Monsanto field representative to register their requests and arrange for pick up of their donated product at their local retail outlet.

Last year, Canadian Foodgrains Bank farmer volunteers requested and received almost $93,000 in donated inputs from Monsanto.

Monsanto Canada formalized its commitment across the company in 2001 to facilitate and encourage greater support for local growing projects. When harvested, crops grown on community growing projects are donated to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank to be used in its food programming activities overseas. Since 1983, Canadian Foodgrains Bank has provided over 930,000 metric tones of grain to people in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Eastern Europe.