Chapter 506 Hugh Grant
Before this, Guo Yang had already communicated with the upper class about this, and the information he got was that Hongqihe could prepare for the project.
But there is no clear line.
The second Hongqi River route involves the country, and domestic practices have always been very cautious.
No particular risk is taken.
Even this opportunity is already particularly good.
But although the internal problems of the 'World Police' in the United States are full of contradictions, their strength is still relatively strong, and there is a large number of younger brothers around them.
Without absolute certainty, the upper level will not rashly change its external policies.
Unless, America is also cracked.
And now that China has the ability to fan the flames, to be precise, Guo Yang has the ability.
To be honest, Guo Yang was a little annoyed.
He felt that he was being used as a tool, and the upper level tried his bottom line again and again.
The overall situation is the most important thing. The four words passed by the upper class through Mr. Liu mean a lot of things.
But he is not a politician. To put it nicely, he is an entrepreneur, and then he is a capitalist. The boundary between the two is very blurred.
But when facing power, most of the time, they are fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
The only reliance is that Jiahe's industry is large enough, involving the livelihoods of millions of people. Everyone who wants to touch him has to consider it.
However, it is not impossible.
The sea buckthorn fruit outside the floor-to-ceiling window turned yellow again, and the trees became tall and lush, overlapping densely, extending all the way to the sky, and it was impossible to tell that this was once the Gobi Desert.
Guo Yang said to himself: "You need to make more preparations. The cunning rabbit has three holes. Now, except for the country, there is only one Congo (Dragon)."
Who should I send?
Yu Honghai is not necessarily reliable now. After all, he also has an official background behind him and is only suitable for doing business. He is a bit unwilling to let go of other things.
Guo Yang's eyes stayed on Luo Xiu at the door for a moment.
At this moment, Qu Yang walked in.
"Boss, the matter of the United States has been arranged. This time, American farmers have to peel off again."
Guo Yang said lightly: "It's not enough to just peel off. Secondly, we must completely defeat his agriculture! ”
America is the representative of the world's agricultural industrialization and the number one agricultural power. It wins over a few younger brothers with food hegemony.
Once agriculture collapses completely, there will be no foundation. If the industry becomes hollowed out, the building may also collapse.
Qu Yang hesitated and said, "Will this be too much? You may doubt Jiahe's head."
Guo Yang pondered, "Monsanto is also at its peak now, at the same time, There are constant troubles, and the blame will not fall on Jiahe. "
If there may be surprises in Asan and South America, but in the United States, Monsanto cannot take the blame.
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"If you have information about seed stolen, press 2."
Arkansas farmer Ray Dawson called the free hotline established by Monsanto, and the phone came A friendly female voice.
He chose 2.
Then he connected to an operator in Monsanto's "planting management team".
He then took a few seconds to report his neighbor, who might have engaged in pirated seeds.
Just two weeks ago, Ray Dawson was also reported and suffered a huge blow to it.
He eventually had to pay $200,000 before Monsanto stopped harassing him.
This incident puts great pressure on his family.
Once, Monsanto's lawyer threatened to put Dawson's wife in jail, saying that she lied when she was taking the record while she had already taken the oath.
Dawson, the brave man who often wears a hat that "Dawson's farm was shut down by Monsanto, finally decided that compensation for Monsanto would be a better choice than watching his family fall apart.
Others will make the same choice.
According to relevant American institutions, Monsanto has initiated thousands of lawsuits against farmers as of this year.
In a small town square in Little Rock, Arkansas, Professor Jansen Northworthy from Arkansas is hoarsely accusing Monsanto of his crimes.
"The average compensation paid by each farmer in these cases is as high as $100,000!"
"There are also some farmers who are determined not to follow."
"They launched a fierce legal battle against the so-called increasingly powerful 'police state', however, most people lost the final battle!"
"Most of them have never even bought Monsanto's seeds!"
"It could be pollen floating from the farm next door, or seeds dropped by passing trucks that bring these GM characteristics with them." Entering his farmland. "
"In 2006, ten years after the beginning of the Roundup Revolution, scientists discovered glyphosate-resistant weeds in more than 20 states.
The list of drug-resistant weeds has grown to include common and large ragweed, amaranth and ryegrass.
In 2005, a herbicide-resistant amaranth swept across southern America, bringing great problems to farmers who rely entirely on the anti-Roundup system.
However, guys, you all know that the disaster has just begun.
Because, the caltrops are here.
A super weed that destroyed the existing herbicide system.
The red fire ants are here too.
Federal farmers paid a heavy price for this, and a large number of farms went bankrupt and were then acquired by the powerful and wealthy people.
Mosanto can no longer deny this issue, because farmers can see it quite clearly in their fields.
For about a decade before, Monsanto took little action to deal with antibiotics.
I was even reluctant to remind farmers to reduce overuse of glyphosate, but the drug resistance problem will not disappear easily.
However, the years-long disaster caused by caltrops and red fire ants caused Monsanto to suffer heavy losses.
They had to pay attention to this issue and developed a new plan for this purpose: the upgraded version of the anti-Roundup.
A seed superimposed with Roundup and dicamba genes.
This is good news.
But the greater misfortune came again soon.
Dithambas have a strong tendency to volatile and will drift from one farm to another, especially when the weather is hot.
Monsanto knows that the herbicide spread to farms without dicamba-resistant crops will cause catastrophic losses to farmers who have not purchased upgraded Roundup seeds.
But they did not try to invent a new dicamba formula that would not volatile to solve the problem.
But it is eager to bring new seeds to the market.
And Monsanto made a bold move, banning universities in Arkansas, Missouri, Eriejoi and other agricultural scientists from volatile testing of Monsanto's new formula dicamba mixture. ”
There were more and more people gathering in the square, and many people held signs protesting Monsanto. Professor Jansen Northworthy looked at it and found that it was almost all the farmers who went bankrupt due to Monsanto.
He said angrily: "This is the first time that Wo heard that the herbicides sold on the market will stipulate strict guidelines on what can be done and what cannot be done!"
"It's ridiculous! But it's very Monsanto, they can even intercept the income after farmers harvest food!"
"The seeds that resistant to dicamba are finally on the market, eager to solve the increasingly serious weed resistance. Farmers in the problem began to grow dicamba-resistant cotton, soybeans and corn seeds. ”
"But the system is still under compliance review at this time and has not been approved by the EPA."
"However, in just two farming seasons, the dicamba formula that is prone to volatile has spread throughout the federal southern region. .
This is a disaster.
Arkansas is one of the worst-hit states.
The local plant committee has received more than 2,000 complaints from farmers. Complaints about dicamba floating into their farms and infringing on their crops.
The committee was overwhelmed.
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This problem broke out in the hot South, but also spread across all the federal agricultural areas, from Georgia to North Dakota, and this problem arises!
Drift issues force farmers to cast their new seed system in Monsanto.
Farmers who choose to refuse are likely to face serious economic losses caused by dicamba.
Who would take this risk?
For many farmers, there is only one way, and that is to buy these seeds.
As of today, dicamba is everywhere.
Many innocent farms have suffered a catastrophe!
And Monsanto became the biggest beneficiary!
They are all deceiving the whole world. I can't look at their activities directly, this is a company with no conscience!
How they pretended that the whole thing had nothing to do with them!
Its products are defective!
We want to unite and defeat Monsanto! ”
There is a two-story building on the right back of the square, with two sales managers from Tianhe Seed Industry, one yellow and one white.
Xia Yaohua's English is not bad. He fully understood Professor Jensen's speech, "It's really exciting!"
The white man, Garn Burton, does not understand Chinese, and thought Xia Yaohua also hated Monsanto. , "Monsanto is really abominable! Our seeds cannot withstand the erosion of dicamba, and farmers are unwilling to buy our seeds at all."
Xia Yaohua smiled and said in English: "Bully bullying others, companies monopolize control, and resist Medicinal weeds, Monsanto has been betrayed by everyone."
Garn Burton said, "But it has not fallen yet."
" Only one introduction, or a fair big one Judge, a fair law. "Xia Yaohua looked at Garn Burton, "Do you believe in federal laws?"
Garn Burton said disdainfully: "The law of the federal government is shit!"
Xia Yaohua pondered: "But there will be the day when a fair judgment will come."
Half an hour later Professor Jansen finished his speech and came to the house, but he only saw Garn Burton.
Garn Burton smiled and said, "Professor, the speech is very good, but I think your Chevrolet truck should be replaced. How about Ford?"
Jason said in confusion: " My truck is OK, why should I change it? ”
"Because it was sponsored by Monsanto, Monsanto is now a devil and does not match your identity as a professor."
Jason agreed, "Then let's change it."
< br>Xia Yaohua also took a Ford truck and drove on the road from Little Rock to Memphis.
The farm on the side of the rural road has been harvested, and cotton, soybeans, corn and wheat are intertwined into a pastoral beauty.
However, Xia Yaohua looked down on the beautiful scenery, but sat on the tall truck, looking for weeds in the farmland.
The new dicamba formula mixture dried up the terrestrial thorns, but a brand new weed was reappearing in federal farmland.
In the suburbs of Memphis, Xia Yaohua saw the same speech scene as Little Rock.
Or the whole of the central and southern Union was filled with such meetings, and the voices of resistance to Monsanto were growing louder and louder.
Tianhe's actions to fund agricultural scientists are not rash, which is normal in the federal government.
Professor Jansen of Little Rock has been sponsored by Monsanto for more than ten years, but he is not from Monsanto.
There are many people like him.
St. Louis, Missouri.
Hugh Grant is a 45-year-old scientist who grew up in an old coal mine and textile town in Scotland with a strong Scottish accent.
When the anti-Monsanto wave intensified, the Monsanto board chose him to replace the original CEO Brett Bijman.
Brett Bijman brought Monsanto to a new peak through the acquisition of Syngenta and the upgraded anti-Roundup system.
Super Agriculture Group with a market of over 100 billion US dollars.
Anti-Ronda Seeds have once again become a money printing machine.
However, when problems arise from anti-Monsanto waves in all sectors of the federal community, ban on genetically modified seeds in Europe, slow approval procedures in South America, and a complete collapse of the Chinese market, Brett Bijman is no longer favored by the company.
Appointing Hugh Grant is more conducive to Monsanto's image, because he rarely boasts and talks loudly.
Of course, he also has crazy casual times.
For example, when Grant followed the National Geographic expedition to investigate the melting of the ice caused by global warming, he impulsively jumped into the bone-breathing Arctic Ocean.
He also took a group of farmers out to sing passionate karaoke.
But, most of the time, Grant is known for his Zen-style calmness and sobriety.
In contrast to Brett Bijman, he chose a small cube office at Monsanto headquarters, rather than a luxurious suite filled with mahogany furniture around the corner.
Celebrity, friendly, gentle, quiet... These are the labels given to Monsanto, the middle-aged manager by media reporters.
For a company that has encountered image problems, Grant's calmness is exactly what Monsanto's board of directors wants to see.
Grant started working hard from the bottom.
At the age of 23, he saw Monsanto's job advertisement and immediately became Monsanto's salesperson in Scotland.
Because of his outstanding performance, he became the leader of a Roundup team in Northern Ireland.
Then he was transferred back to St. Louis and appointed as the new chief strategist of the Nouveau brand, when he was only 30 years old.
As the chief strategist, Grant wisely secured RONDA's market share at the node when the patent of Glyphosate is about to expire.
In 2001, a brand of Roundup glyphosate still had revenue of up to US$2.8 billion.
After the outbreak of caltrops, he also designed the sales strategy of the upgraded anti-Roundup system, including allowing dicamba to float into the farmland next door.
And for this, it once again brought amazing profits to Monsanto.
So, Grant is a 'Ronda' person.
All of his career achievements are attributed to the powerful chemical ‘Rounda’.
Now, as the helm, Grant is facing new problems.
(This chapter ends)