Monsanto looks to the future with new research platforms

By Doug Rich

Farmers and a large seed company share a common link—technology—to increase efficiency and production.

“The world is going to need more corn and soybeans at an accelerating rate, and the only way to get there is increased yields,” said Robb Fraley, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Monsanto, at a recent media session in St. Louis, Mo. “There simply is not enough farmland that can be put into production. Using the right tools to drive yield and productivity is the solution that will meet the demand for food in the future.”

Monsanto is putting research dollars into emerging platforms to meet that demand in the future. The most promising of those research platforms are Monsanto’s Integrated Farming Systems research platform called FieldScripts and BioDirect, an agricultural biological platform.

According to Monsanto, FieldScripts integrates their understanding of hybrid performance with the data farmers provide about their individual fields to identify the best hybrids and provide a variable rate planting prescription for each field. The process is led by FieldScripts certified dealers, delivered through the FieldView Plus app on the farmer’s iPad, and executed with precision equipment on the planter. [Read More]

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