Instead, he started his own company and spent the next few years buying and selling a weed killer from Helena Chemical, competing with Helena's own sales force for meager margins.

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Monsanto's stock is up sevenfold since 2004 (trouncing Dow shares) thanks to its huge success selling seeds bioengineered to fight off bacteria and withstand direct application of Monsanto's own weed killer Roundup.

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Any schoolboy explosives expert knows the correct proportions of weed-killer and sugar and so do the fishermen.

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