Here's the link to the press release, and thanks to Mary Ann Whitman for alerting the Garden Writers Listserv.
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oooh, half a million is going to put a huge dent in their $1 billion annual profits.
http://investor.scotts.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98364&p=irol-fundIncomeA
Posted by: max | November 27, 2007 at 03:25 PM
What max said.
Posted by: Kim | November 27, 2007 at 05:56 PM
Um, let me see...
Monsanto (I believe) makes RoundUp-Ready corn and soybeans, so that fields can be sprayed for weeds without hurting the crops.
Scotts is making RoundUp-Ready lawn grass, for the same reason.
Is anyone seeing the future train wreck I'm seeing? Involving a collision between escaped lawn grass and major crops?
Here I sit in the middle of Grass Seed Capital, U.S.A. and I wasn't even aware of this.
Posted by: Reading Dirt | November 27, 2007 at 07:15 PM