<div>Michael,</div>
<div>These graphs are real eye-openers! The big corporations control huge percentage of their markets.</div>
<div>It's time for us to start a local seed-bank.</div>
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<div>Susan <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Michael R. Wolf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MichaelRWolf@att.net">MichaelRWolf@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">In my work as a "data guy", I recently stumbled across these two graphics and thought this group would like to see them.<br>
<br>"Seed Industry Structure 1996-2008" Shows who owns seed companaies. There are distinct colors for seed companies and pharma/chemical companies. Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta (all pharma/chemical) are the big owners.<br>
<br><a href="https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/seedindustry.html" target="_blank">https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/seedindustry.html</a><br><br>"Organic Processing Industry Structure" shows which big processors handle the smaller brands (e.g. General Mills processes Cascadian Farm).<br>
<a href="https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html" target="_blank">https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html</a><br><br>I've also seen some animations from this guy showing how the mergers occurred over time, but I don't have a reference for them.<br>
<br>Enjoy...<br><br><br><br>--<br>Michael R. Wolf<br> All mammals learn by playing!<br> <a href="mailto:MichaelRWolf@att.net">MichaelRWolf@att.net</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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