Monsanto also owned the Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company ("Stoneville"), which also produced cottonseeds.After Monsanto announced that it would purchase Delta for $1.5 billion, various interest groups and competitors, such as the National Black Farmer's Association and DuPont, expressed serious concerns, asserting that the acquisition could raise prices and reduce choices for traited cottonseeds and foreclose competition… [read post]