Monsanto Buys Climate Corp. Envisions Big Data Farming 75
cagraham writes "Agriculture giant Monsanto has purchased the weather analytics firm Climate Corporation for over $930 Millionl. Climate Corp, a firm founded by ex-Google data scientists and software engineers, specializes in hyper-local weather prediction which they use to recommend risk-management and crop-insurance policies for farmers. Monsanto likely wants to use this technology to boost their big data farming systems, and help better market their genetically engineered crop seeds. This news comes the same day that Monsanto posted increased Q4 losses of $0.47 per share."
Re:Monsanto rules the US (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Monsanto rules the US (Score:5, Interesting)
I doubt it. Monsanto is about 200 in the Fortune 500 list.
Good sized, but not likely to be ruling the US.