US (IA): Monsanto opens learning centre in Huxley
Located at Monsanto’s corn and soybean breeding facility on Iowa Highway 210 southeast of Huxley, the learning centre includes a series of instructional videos and displays about the company’s research, development and farm data analysis.
“For 15 years, we’ve (had) a need for a learning centre in Iowa, now we’ve got that,” said Dave Tierney, Monsanto’s government affairs director for the upper Midwest, during the ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday morning.
“We can talk about some of the great work we’re doing, some of the challenges we’re facing and can bring in the community to talk about those things,” Tierney said.
The St. Louis-based Monsanto also has learning centres in Illinois, Mississippi and Nebraska, each one focusing on a different aspect of the company’s work. The Huxley centre concentrates on data science or “maximiz(ing) yield potential through maximum analysis.”
Deputy Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, who attended the open house, said it is “entirely fitting and appropriate that we have a learning centre in Iowa.”
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