>>509814561It likely had more to do with their existing facilities and the farmland they owned than any worth the company might have had. My understanding is that Monsanto wasn't that profitable in the first place, which is one of the reasons it was constantly employing unethical farming practices to keep from going under. They bit off way more than they could chew, and made wildly optimistic promises to their investors that could never happen in a million years. Farming has weird economics to begin with, but when you translate that to a corporate, openly traded company, it doesn't work at all. Corpo farming is a retarded idea that only a coke head could dream up.