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CONVERSATIONS FROM THE CORNER OFFICE: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Monsanto Company TEXT OF INTERVIEW Kai Ryssdal: Hugh Grant, welcome to the program. Hugh Grant: Thank you. It's good to be here. Ryssdal: This is, it seems to me, to be in the agricultural seed business what with food prices and commodity prices. How lucky did you get or how much good planning did you do? Grant: Well I don't think it's luck. I think there's an urgency. We've never seen demand curves like we have right now. I think you probably go back to the Far East when America was feeding a war torn Europe is the last time you saw this kind of demand curve. So this time around a big piece is China and India and it's new people arriving on the planet and there's dietary shifts. So I don't think it's luck. I think actually for our kids,... [read full story]
