{"id":33,"date":"2008-04-12T18:32:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/dev\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-04-14T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T18:55:39","slug":"battle-of-the-veggie-seed-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the veggie seed brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"justify;\"><span>Competition in the vegetable seed market has stepped up a pace with Monsanto&#8217;s acquisition of De Ruiter Seeds. Monsanto, will add the Dutch specialist in green house crops to its already burgeoning war chest of vegetable seed brands &#8211; derived from the acquisition of Seminis back in 2005. Syngenta, the other big fish in this particular pond is also rapidly developing with their acquisition of <\/span><span style=\"EN;\">Zeraim Gedera Ltd., an Israeli company that concentrates on top-quality segments in six high-value crops: tomato, sweet pepper, watermelon, melon, squash and cucumber. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition in vegetable seed market increases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}