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<P align="center"><FONT size="2"><u>AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON APRIL 30, 2003</u></FONT>


<P align="right"><FONT size="2">Registration No. <u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u></FONT>

<P align="center"><FONT size="2"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<BR>
WASHINGTON, DC 20549</B></FONT>


<P align="center"><FONT size="2"><B>FORM S-8<BR>
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B></FONT>


<P align="center"><FONT size="2"><B>MONSANTO COMPANY</B><BR>
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</FONT>


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<B>43-1878297</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT size="2">(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)</FONT></TD>
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT size="2"><B>800 North Lindbergh Boulevard</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT size="2"><B>63167</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT size="2"><B>St. Louis, Missouri</B></FONT></TD>
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(Zip Code)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" valign="top"><FONT size="2">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</FONT></TD>
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<P align="center"><FONT size="2"><B>MONSANTO COMPANY LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN<BR>
(formerly known as the MONSANTO 2000 MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN),<BR>
INCLUDING THE MONSANTO COMPANY NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR<BR>
EQUITY INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN</B><BR>
(Full title of the Plans)</FONT>


<P align="center"><FONT size="2">Charles W. Burson, Esq.<BR>
Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel<BR>
Monsanto Company<BR>
800 North Lindbergh Boulevard<BR>
St. Louis, Missouri 63167<BR>
(Name and address of agent for service)<BR>
(314)&nbsp;694-1000<BR>
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</FONT>


<P align="center"><FONT size="2"><B>Calculation of Registration Fee</B>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2"><FONT size="1"><B>offering price per</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center"><FONT size="1"><B>Title of each class of securities to be registered</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2"><FONT size="1"><B>Registered (1)</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2"><FONT size="1"><B>share (2)</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD><FONT size="2">Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan
(formerly known as the 2000 Management Incentive
Plan), Common Stock $.01 par value (3)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="right"><FONT size="2">16,700,000</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT size="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT size="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD align="left"><FONT size="2">$</FONT></TD>
    <TD align="right"><FONT size="2">15.97</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT size="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT size="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD align="left"><FONT size="2">$</FONT></TD>
    <TD align="right"><FONT size="2">266,699,000</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT size="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="left"><FONT size="2">$</FONT></TD>
    <TD align="right"><FONT size="2">21,575.95</FONT></TD>
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    <TD><FONT size="2">Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director Equity
Incentive Compensation Plan, Common Stock, $.01
par value (3)(4)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="right"><FONT size="2">(4</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="right"><FONT size="2">(4</FONT></TD>
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        <TD width="96%"><FONT size="2">This registration statement registers an additional 16,700,000 shares of
Common Stock $.01 par value of the registrant for which a registration
statement filed on this form relating to the Monsanto Company Long-Term
Incentive Plan (formerly the Monsanto 2000</FONT></TD>
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        <TD width="96%"><FONT size="2">Management Incentive Plan), the Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director Equity
Incentive Compensation Plan, the Monsanto Company Broad-Based Stock Option
Plan and the Monsanto Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan is effective.
These additional shares are reserved for issuance under the Monsanto Company
Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director
Equity Incentive Compensation Plan, only. Shares issuable under the Monsanto
Company Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan will be
automatically granted under the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan. We
previously registered 22,568,000 shares of common stock for issuance under
these plans on Form&nbsp;S-8 on December&nbsp;6, 2000, as amended by Amendment No.&nbsp;1 on
Form&nbsp;S-8 on December&nbsp;11, 2000 (File No.&nbsp;333-51316). We will have an
aggregate of 39,268,000 shares registered and reserved for issuance pursuant
to the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Monsanto Company
Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan upon the
effectiveness of this registration statement.</FONT></TD>
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        <TD width="96%"><FONT size="2">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
pursuant to Rule&nbsp;457(c) and Rule&nbsp;457(h). The proposed maximum offering
price per share represents the average of the high and low prices of the
Common Stock on April&nbsp;23, 2003, as reported in The Wall Street Journal for
the New York Stock Exchange Composite Transactions for the shares reserved
for issuance under the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly
known as the Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan).</FONT></TD>
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        <TD width="96%"><FONT size="2">This Registration Statement also relates to such indeterminate number of
additional shares as may be issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution
provisions of the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly the
Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan). Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416(a) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement shall also
cover any additional shares of the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock that become
issuable under the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan and the
Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan
by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other
similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration or other
similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that
increases the number of the Registrant&#146;s outstanding shares of Common
Stock.</FONT></TD>
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        <TD width="96%"><FONT size="2">Shares issuable under the Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive
Compensation Plan will be automatically granted under the Monsanto Company
Long-Term Incentive Plan; accordingly, no separate registration fee is
payable with respect to the Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation
Plan.</FONT></TD>
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<P align="center"><FONT size="2"><B>PURPOSE OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<P><FONT size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 registers additional securities of
the same class as other securities for which a registration statement filed on
this form relating to the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly
known as the Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan) and the Monsanto Company
Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan, is effective.
Consequently, pursuant to General Instruction E to Form&nbsp;S-8, the contents of
the Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-51316), filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on December&nbsp;6, 2000, and the contents of
Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to Form&nbsp;S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-51316), filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on December&nbsp;11, 2000, with respect to such plans, are
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. In addition, the
following information is included:

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<P align="left"><FONT size="2"><B>Item&nbsp;5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.</B>
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<P><FONT size="2">The legality of the additional shares of Common Stock registered pursuant to
this Registration Statement to be issued pursuant to the Monsanto Company
Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director
Equity Incentive Compensation Plan will be passed upon for the Company by
Michael L. DeCamp, Assistant Secretary and Assistant General Counsel of the
Company, who is a participant in various employment benefit plans offered by
the Company and owns or has options to purchase shares of Common Stock
pursuant to such plans.

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<P align="left"><FONT size="2"><B>Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits</B>
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<P><FONT size="2">See Exhibit&nbsp;Index.

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<P><FONT size="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies
that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8, and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the County of St. Louis, and the State of Missouri, on this
30th day of April, 2003.

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/s/ Michael L. DeCamp</FONT></TD>
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    <TD colspan="2" valign="top"><FONT size="2">Name: Michael L. DeCamp<BR>
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<P><FONT size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on
the dates indicated.

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Chairman of the Board of Directors,
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="2">April&nbsp;30, 2003</FONT></TD>
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President and Chief Executive</FONT></TD>
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    <TD valign="top" align="center"><FONT size="2">(Frank V. AtLee III)</FONT></TD>
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Officer (Principal Executive Officer)</FONT></TD>
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Director
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="2">April&nbsp;30, 2003</FONT></TD>
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    <TD valign="top" align="center"><FONT size="2">(Gwendolyn S. King)</FONT></TD>
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Director
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    <TD valign="top" align="center"><FONT size="2">(Sharon R. Long)</FONT></TD>
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Director
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Director
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Director
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Director
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Executive Vice President and
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Chief Financial Officer</FONT></TD>
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(Principal Financial Officer)</FONT></TD>
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Vice President and Controller
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(Principal Accounting Officer)</FONT></TD>
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        <TD width="96%"><FONT size="2">Michael L. DeCamp, by signing his name hereto, does sign this
document on behalf of the above noted individuals, pursuant to powers
of attorney duly executed by such individuals which have been
filed as an Exhibit to this Registration Statement.</FONT></TD>
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/s/ Michael L. DeCamp</FONT></TD>
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Attorney-in-Fact</FONT></TD>
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3.1</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="2">Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 of the
Company&#146;s Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1,
filed August&nbsp;30, 2000 (File No.&nbsp;333-36956))</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="2">Amended By-Laws of the Company, effective September&nbsp;19,
2002 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 of the
Company&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-Q for the quarter ended September&nbsp;20, 2002
(File No.&nbsp;1-16167))</FONT></TD>
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4.1</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="2">Form of Specimen Certificate of the Registrant&#146;s Common
Stock (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;4.1 to the
Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, as amended (File No.
333-36956))</FONT></TD>
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10.1</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="2">Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly the
Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan)(incorporated herein by
reference to Appendix&nbsp;C to the Company&#146;s Proxy Statement dated
March&nbsp;13, 2003 (File No.&nbsp;001-16167)</FONT></TD>
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10.2</FONT></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="2">Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan,
amended December&nbsp;18, 2002 and effective as of September&nbsp;19, 2002
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.15 to the Company&#146;s Form
10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2002 (File No.&nbsp;1-16167)(the
&#147;2002 Form&nbsp;10-K&#148;))</FONT></TD>
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AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON APRIL 30, 2003
Registration No.
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
MONSANTO COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
43-1878297
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
800 North Lindbergh Boulevard
63167
St. Louis, Missouri
(Zip Code)
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
MONSANTO COMPANY LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
(formerly known as the MONSANTO 2000 MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN),
INCLUDING THE MONSANTO COMPANY NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR
EQUITY INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN
(Full title of the Plans)
Charles W. Burson, Esq.
Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
Monsanto Company
800 North Lindbergh Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63167
(Name and address of agent for service)
(314) 694-1000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Calculation of Registration Fee
Proposed maximum
Proposed maximum
Amount to be
offering price per
aggregate offering
Amount of
Title of each class of securities to be registered
Registered (1)
share (2)
price (2)
registration fee (3)
Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan
(formerly known as the 2000 Management Incentive
Plan), Common Stock $.01 par value (3)
16,700,000
$
15.97
$
266,699,000
$
21,575.95
Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director Equity
Incentive Compensation Plan, Common Stock, $.01
par value (3)(4)
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(1)
This registration statement registers an additional 16,700,000 shares of
Common Stock $.01 par value of the registrant for which a registration
statement filed on this form relating to the Monsanto Company Long-Term
Incentive Plan (formerly the Monsanto 2000
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Management Incentive Plan), the Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director Equity
Incentive Compensation Plan, the Monsanto Company Broad-Based Stock Option
Plan and the Monsanto Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan is effective.
These additional shares are reserved for issuance under the Monsanto Company
Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director
Equity Incentive Compensation Plan, only. Shares issuable under the Monsanto
Company Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan will be
automatically granted under the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan. We
previously registered 22,568,000 shares of common stock for issuance under
these plans on Form S-8 on December 6, 2000, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on
Form S-8 on December 11, 2000 (File No. 333-51316). We will have an
aggregate of 39,268,000 shares registered and reserved for issuance pursuant
to the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Monsanto Company
Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan upon the
effectiveness of this registration statement.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h). The proposed maximum offering
price per share represents the average of the high and low prices of the
Common Stock on April 23, 2003, as reported in The Wall Street Journal for
the New York Stock Exchange Composite Transactions for the shares reserved
for issuance under the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly
known as the Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan).
(3)
This Registration Statement also relates to such indeterminate number of
additional shares as may be issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution
provisions of the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly the
Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan). Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement shall also
cover any additional shares of the Registrant's Common Stock that become
issuable under the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan and the
Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan
by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other
similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration or other
similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that
increases the number of the Registrant's outstanding shares of Common
Stock.
(4)
Shares issuable under the Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive
Compensation Plan will be automatically granted under the Monsanto Company
Long-Term Incentive Plan; accordingly, no separate registration fee is
payable with respect to the Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation
Plan.
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PURPOSE OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EX-5.1 Opinion/Consent of Michael L. DeCamp
EX-23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche
EX-24.1 Power of Attorney
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PURPOSE OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 registers additional securities of
the same class as other securities for which a registration statement filed on
this form relating to the Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly
known as the Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan) and the Monsanto Company
Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan, is effective.
Consequently, pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of
the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-51316), filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on December 6, 2000, and the contents of
Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 (File No. 333-51316), filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on December 11, 2000, with respect to such plans, are
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. In addition, the
following information is included:
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
The legality of the additional shares of Common Stock registered pursuant to
this Registration Statement to be issued pursuant to the Monsanto Company
Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Monsanto Company Non-Employee Director
Equity Incentive Compensation Plan will be passed upon for the Company by
Michael L. DeCamp, Assistant Secretary and Assistant General Counsel of the
Company, who is a participant in various employment benefit plans offered by
the Company and owns or has options to purchase shares of Common Stock
pursuant to such plans.
Item 8. Exhibits
See Exhibit Index.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies
that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the County of St. Louis, and the State of Missouri, on this
30th day of April, 2003.
MONSANTO COMPANY
(Registrant)
By:
/s/ Michael L. DeCamp
Name: Michael L. DeCamp
Title:  Assistant Secretary and Assistant General Counsel
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on
the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
*
Chairman of the Board of Directors,
April 30, 2003
President and Chief Executive
(Frank V. AtLee III)
Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
Director
April 30, 2003
(Gwendolyn S. King)
*
Director
April 30, 2003
(Sharon R. Long)
*
Director
April 30, 2003
(C. Steven McMillan)
*
Director
April 30, 2003
(William U. Parfet)
*
Director
April 30, 2003
(George H. Poste)
*
Director
April 30, 2003
(Robert J. Stevens)
*
Executive Vice President and
April 30, 2003
Chief Financial Officer
(Terrell K. Crews)
(Principal Financial Officer)
*
Vice President and Controller
April 30, 2003
(Principal Accounting Officer)
(Richard B. Clark)
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*
Michael L. DeCamp, by signing his name hereto, does sign this
document on behalf of the above noted individuals, pursuant to powers
of attorney duly executed by such individuals which have been
filed as an Exhibit to this Registration Statement.
/s/ Michael L. DeCamp
By:
Michael L. DeCamp
Attorney-in-Fact
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.
Description
3.1
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the
Company's Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1,
filed August 30, 2000 (File No. 333-36956))
3.2
Amended By-Laws of the Company, effective September 19,
2002 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the
Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 20, 2002
(File No. 1-16167))
4.1
Form of Specimen Certificate of the Registrant's Common
Stock (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the
Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No.
333-36956))
5.1
Opinion of Michael L. DeCamp relating to the legality of
the Common Stock
10.1
Monsanto Company Long-Term Incentive Plan (formerly the
Monsanto 2000 Management Incentive Plan)(incorporated herein by
reference to Appendix C to the Company's Proxy Statement dated
March 13, 2003 (File No. 001-16167)
10.2
Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Compensation Plan,
amended December 18, 2002 and effective as of September 19, 2002
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to the Company's Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002 (File No. 1-16167)(the
"2002 Form 10-K"))
23.1
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.2
Consent of Company Counsel (See Exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Power of Attorney
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