Given the bizarre letter, the CEO must have known that many of his employees considered Monsanto the enemy. So it looks like the CEO was a sell-out and took the easy money.

Data scientists, programmers and agricultural experts were hired to help build systems and crunch numbers to help farmers make the best from their soil and weather.

By contrast, Monsanto sell magic seeds, resistant to everything, guaranteed to improve yield and profits for farmers... who needs weather analysis when you have Monsanto?

Does anybody know how the employees feel about it? Is the company struggling to retain employees? It seems they are aggressively hiring, but hard to know if this is actual expansion or replacement hires.