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We've saved one of the highlights today just shortly before the lunch break. And it's my honor today to introduce to you the Chief Financial Officer of Monsanto, Carl Casale, to you, and to his left, Manny Cruz from the Investor Relations department. Monsanto is one of the companies which truly fit our title of the conference, Best of Americas Companies. And as you know, Monsanto obviously is the world's leading producer of seed with a dominant position in genetically modified trade. Monsanto also in our research view is one of our key ideas where we have a bi-recommendation and a [$##] price target. If you look through Carl's biography, you'll find an interesting tidbit there. He has been growing up on a family farm, so he obviously knows what he is talking about just from the very early childhood on. And he's also still running today a blueberry farm where he probably still uses a lot of the products which would be helpful. But not to bore...

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