Soviet Godfather

The former CEO of Dakota Pasta Growers Company Griffith, wearing a baseball cap with his name on his head, delivered his first campaign speech in front of thousands of supporters in the audience. As an executive of the most influential food processing company in North Dakota, Griffith has a good reputation and rich contacts in agricultural production areas like North Dakota. A few years ago, a consortium from the United Kingdom acquired the Dakota Pasta Growers Company where he worked, Griffith gained trust with his performance and continued to serve as this long-established grain processing company under the new owner. Branch.

Seriously, in the past two years, the US food industry has undergone radical changes. Investors from Europe controlled most of the wheat production in Saskatchewan, Canada, and then they extended their tentacles into South Dakota and North Dakota. Griffith didn’t know much about his boss. He only knows that his boss is a beautiful and young woman who lives in Switzerland all the year round and runs a gallery and art business in Europe. And now the huge food business in the hands of the boss is taken over by another company from Switzerland, Glencore. Not long ago, Griffith was invited to Switzerland to meet his boss, Kalim, who is already the vice president of Glencore. The two discussed the future development of the company for a long time. It was during this conversation. In, Kalim asked Griffith if he would leave the company to join politics.

When he first heard this, Griffith thought he was going to be squeezed out of the company that had been struggling for many years. Fortunately, after Kalim’s patient explanation, Griffith finally understood that the other party proposed this. The true purpose of the proposal.

"Griffith, you have a good reputation among farmers in North and South Dakota. This is the fundamental reason why Dakota Pasta Growers Company can maintain its dominance in these two states. But whether it is from the company From your personal point of view, it’s a pity that you don’t use such excellent network resources well! Next year will be the midterm elections in the United States. I hope you can stand up and join politics. Of course, the cost of the campaign. I will prepare it for you in secret!" Kalim said straightforwardly according to Sergeisha's instructions.

"But, Lady Kalim! I have never experienced politics. Besides, what can I bring to the company if I am a businessman going to be a cross-border politician?" Although Griffith is a little excited about politics, he can I don't want to leave Glencore's big tree. The company's treatment is not generally generous. Griffith's loyalty is largely due to the company's generous treatment. But in addition, Glencore's outstanding marketing capabilities are also one of the important reasons Griffiths fancy. After Kalim was fed up with Dakota Pasta Growers, the wheat and other agricultural products purchased by the company rarely had a backlog, and almost no inventory problems occurred. In Griffith's view, this Really an ideal job with more money and less work close to home.

"Griffith, we are very clear about your concerns, but I think you look at this first?" Kalim finished speaking, took out a thick document from the table and placed it in front of Griffith . Griffith opened the document, which was an undisclosed letter of intent to acquire. The subject of the acquisition was a small seed sales company operated by Griffith. In the column of transaction amount, Griffith saw that it was actually vacant. He looked at Kalim, wondering what was going on.

"Don't get me wrong, Griffith. The company is not dissatisfied with you taking the resources of Dakota Pasta Growers to support its own seed sales company. But now the company is preparing to introduce another seed production company in the United States. The company has become a new supplier, so we are ready to acquire this seed sales company under your name! The price, fill it out by yourself, the company will never counter-offer, and we will give you some shares of the new seed company in return. Family! But I hope you can help the company promote our seed products in North and South Dakota if you are elected as a state legislator or governor in the future? Explain the stakes.

Griffith was completely stunned by Kalim's mastery. He had never encountered such a situation in his years of business experience. But Griffith still asked a little uneasy: "What kind of seed product is it, and which company produces it?"

"Oh! It is a genetically modified soybean produced by Monsanto. The biggest difference of this soybean is that it will not be killed by glyphosate herbicides. If this soybean is used, the farmer can spray Monsanto's glyphosate at will. Phosphine herbicides will not have any impact on soybean crops. You are an insider. You know how much crop yields will increase if there are no weeds that erode the farmland!" Kalim explained to Griffiths .

"Genetically modified? Monsanto is the company that produced ddt during World War II and defoliants during the Vietnam War? Aren't they a chemical company? When did they enter the seed production industry?" Griffith asked puzzled. He knows about Monsanto's glyphosate. This herbicide can kill almost all crops in the field~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but the validity period is very short, and it is said to have low toxicity and will not cause any side effects on crops. Before the advent of glyphosate, American farmers mainly used Agent Orange, which was also produced by Monsanto, as a herbicide. However, since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the media has successively exposed the harm of Agent Orange to newborns and humans, making glyphosate. It has become almost the only choice in the herbicide market. But glyphosate can kill weeds and crops, so herbicides can only be used one month before the sowing of the clock. But now the newly produced soybean seeds are not afraid of glyphosate, which is simply amazing. Does this mean that there will no longer be any plants in the farmland except for the crops?

Griffith was surprised by his boss's powerful methods, and calmly attracted Monsanto, the chemical company. With this kind of seed, soybean production and cost in Dakota will probably be hard to meet in the world. Griffith remembered that Kalim had promised to give him a share of the seed sales company. Would anyone dislike this seed? Griffith didn't hesitate, and generously filled in 100 million US dollars in the amount column, and then signed his name. Griffith's part-time job made a lot of money in this deal, and his seed sales company is worth several million dollars at most.

Kalim didn't feel any dissatisfaction with this amount. He had achieved his goal and asked Griffith to stand up for Monsanto's newly developed genetically modified soybean platform. Although Monsanto’s Life Sciences Department has been trying to overcome the corn problem in recent years, it was unexpected that soybeans were the first to be harvested. And Griffith's influence in the agricultural state is definitely Monsanto's first choice to promote its own products.