Breaking news: Monsanto officials have yet to announce whether any of its recently announced layoffs will affect employees locally or in the Delta. Following a 14% 3rd quarter drop in business profits, Monsanto will lay off 4% of its global workforce - about nine hundred employees - over the next months, company spokesman Mr Quarles said Wednesday.
Monsanto, a leading global agricultural corporation and the world's biggest agricultural seed producer, have not disclosed which departments or what locations will undergo cuts.