INDIANAPOLIS – Sept. 25, 2007 – Dow AgroSciences announces its 2008 Grower Rewards program, which provides profit opportunities to growers who plant Mycogen® brand seed and use crop protection products from Dow AgroSciences.

This program allows growers to earn cash rebates of up to 10 percent on their Mycogen brand seed products and Dow AgroSciences crop protection purchases for the 2008 production season.

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Golden Valley, Minn. - September 24, 2007 - With more than $25 million of capital improvements now complete at its Midwestern seed supply facilities and significant increases in corn and soybean seed to harvest this fall, Syngenta has geared up for an anticipated increase in customer demand for its Garst®, Golden Harvest® and NK® seed products for 2008 planting.

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ST. LOUIS, MO, USA and REHOVOT, ISRAEL (Sept. 25, 2007) –Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) and Evogene Ltd. (TASE: EVGN) today announced a collaboration to improve nitrogen use efficiency in corn, soybeans, canola and cotton. Under the agreement, Monsanto gains exclusive rights to a number of genes discovered by Evogene that help plants maintain yield with lower applications of nitrogen. Monsanto will work to evaluate the use of those genes in its research and development pipeline. The potential candidates from Evogene are complementary to the nitrogen utilization genes already in testing in Monsanto’s pipeline and could provide the opportunity to further a series of upgrades for this key target area. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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The following 31 seed brands will offer a total of 179 Vistive low linolenic soybean products for the 2008 growing season.

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As food company and processor demand for better oils for healthier foods continues to grow, Monsanto next season will offer soybean farmers an expanded portfolio of high-performing Vistive™ low-linolenic soybeans, which can reduce or eliminate trans fats in processed soybean oil.

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Company Also Named Recipient of U.S. EPA “Best of the Best” Award

MONTREAL — September 21, 2007 — Dow AgroSciences LLC, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: Dow), has been named a winner of the United Nation’s Montreal Protocol Innovators Award at the annual Meeting of the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement designed to protect the earth’s ozone layer.

The award honors the company’s innovation, investment and commitment to protect the environment through its efforts to develop alternatives to methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting substance being phased out under the Protocol.

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With harvest, growers begin planning for another champion season. The key to a winning season is a good defense: Poncho^® 250 and Poncho 1250 seed-applied insecticides.

The results show Poncho 250 and Poncho 1250 have risen to the top of the yield results and proven themselves again as the superior seed and seedling protection. Poncho 250 provides growers with early season protection against black cutworms, wireworms, white grubs, seed corn maggots, grape colaspis, flea beetles, chinch bugs and other corn seed and seedling insect pests.

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Growers have seen record numbers this year with corn yields, so it is more important than ever to them to protect their planted investments. Many growers rely upon Stratego^® fungicide as the answer in minimizing the risk of disease during the growing season.

The combination of late planting and adverse weather conditions in 2007 made for ideal conditions for disease. Growers can ensure disease control for their crops in the next year by investing in the protection of a foliar fungicide application, like Stratego.

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As growers make their seed-buying decisions, LibertyLink^® hybrids provide them with a high-performance proven option, making them an industry front-runner again this season.

The Liberty^®/LibertyLink system offers the convenience, ease and cost effectiveness of the Roundup Ready^® system. But Liberty herbicide also takes out weeds resistant or tolerant to Roundup^® thanks to its unique, non-selective chemistry.

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ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 19, 2007 - Monsanto will deploy two first-of-their kind Crop Analytics Mobile Labs (CAML’s) this harvest season to measure the linolenic acid content of Vistive˙ soybeans delivered to processing facilities.

Vistive low-linolenic soybeans typically contain up to 3 percent linolenic acid as an oil component, compared with 8 percent for conventional soybeans. This low-linolenic alternative enables food processors to use Vistive oil to reduce the need for hydrogenation, which creates trans fats in processed soybean oil.

Conventional testing of soybean oil composition typically involves the use of a near infrared grain analyzer. Though near infrared analysis is very effective for this purpose, some delivered grain samples require additional confirmation from a primary gold standard method, such as Gas Chromatography (GC). A traditional GC method typically takes two to eight hours to analyze a sample.

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