Concentration of Ownership of Seeds
Since 1995 the speed of take overs of seed companies has increased astronomically. Now some 75% of all seed companies are owned by a few corporations - Monsanto, Bayer, Rhone Poulenc, Dupont, Syngenta, BASF, Hoechs, Novartis and Geigi. Most of these used to be chemical or pharmaceutical companies. They retain the trading names of the seed companies they take over so farmers and gardeners are none the wiser as to who controls them. Below is a list of which seed companies the first five of these corporations own.
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
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