Mississippi Business Journal » Lester Spell Jr. http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 In high corn http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/16/in-high-corn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-high-corn http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/16/in-high-corn/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:00:30 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=35682 Monsanto Company has an expressed goal of doubling agriculture yields over the next 20 years, and officials say the company’s new corn-breeding facility in Central Mississippi will play an important role in meeting that objective. More than 100 people gathered at the new Monsanto facility in the Flora Industrial Park last week for the official [...]

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