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Monsanto opens learning center in Huxley, USA
Aug. 21, 2014
Monsanto has opened the doors to a new agricultural learning center in Huxley. Located at Monsanto’s corn and soybean breeding facility on Iowa Highway 210 southeast of Huxley, the learning center 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 center 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 centers in Illinois, Mississippi and Nebraska, each one focusing on a different aspect of the company’s work. The Huxley center concentrates on data science or "maximizing 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 center in Iowa."
Naig said it makes sense for Monsanto to have a "huge presence" in Iowa, citing the state’s credentials of being the leading producers of corn, soybeans, pork and ethanol in the country.
Tierney said the learning center, which will have 65 full-time employees, will mostly be used for customers, employee training, visits by government officials and school groups and clubs such as 4-H and FFA.
Brent Schwenneker, Huxley Learning Center lead, conducted a tour during an open house of the learning center, which includes a series of short videos and displays about seed science, farm technology and data science.
Monsanto began the vision and plans for the 18,000-square-foot learning center about two years ago, Schwenneker said, and just finished work on the center in the last week. Monsanto opened its Huxley facility in 2006.
Schwenneker said the center was a “lofty investment” for the company, but did not say how much the learning center cost.
Source: Ames Tribune
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