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Hear what Ernesto Fajardo, U.S. Commercial Lead, and Boyd Carey, U.S. Technology Development Lead, have to say about Monsanto’s Water Utilization Learning Center in Gothenburg, Nebraska – from why we selected Gothenburg as a location to how the center will benefit farmers across the U.S.
Ernesto Fajardo
U.S. Commercial Lead
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Listen as Fajardo discusses the importance of Monsanto’s learning centers and our continued commitment to making investments that allow farmers to be more productive on their farms.
Connecting Technology
TRT:30 OC:successful using them."
Audio Transcript: “The learning centers allow us to connect the grower with the technology. It’s an actual opportunity for the growers to actually see the technology, how it works, how it actually shows up in the field and what are the benefits that go all the way from the greenhouse and from the great inventions of our scientists in St. Louis and around the U.S. and how they actually show up. They can experience those, ask questions, and so by the time they purchase those products, we can be sure they’ll be successful using them.”
Grower Success
TRT:14 OC:we'll be successful."
Audio Transcript: “We’ve said many times we don’t have any other business than agriculture. We invest and invent these products so farmers are successful. If farmers are successful using our products, they’ll come back every season to buy more and therefore they’ll be successful so we’ll be successful.”
Continued Investment
TRT:41 OC:on that partnership."
Audio Transcript: “The other piece I like about Gothenburg is it’s another demonstration of investment. We invest in technologies, we invest by bringing new traits, new products and new genetics to the market. But at the same time, it’s just as important to invest in how we help train and make sure farmers are ready to use these technologies, because our sustainable yield initiative is not something we can do on our own; it’s something we need to partner with growers. It starts with what we’re doing at these learning centers, which is sharing how we use those technologies and how we make a difference, so by the time they take it to their own farms they truly experience that, and we continue to build on that partnership.”
Boyd Carey
U.S. Technology Development Lead
Listen as Carey talks about why we chose Gothenburg as a location for the Water Utilization Learning Center, Monsanto’s commitment to sustainable agriculture, and how the facility at Gothenburg will help support our goals of doubling yields and reducing crop inputs by 2030. Carey also discusses what agronomic practices and crop technologies will be on display in Gothenburg.
Sustainable Yield
TRT:1:22 OC:for the farmer."
Audio Transcript: “Monsanto has made a commitment to sustainable yield, and our intention is to work with the agricultural industry to help farmers find a way to double yields by 2030 for corn, cotton and soybeans. While we double yields by 2030, we are going to reduce the key resources that are inputs required as resources for producing those yields. We look at the plan for accomplishing this objective in really three different platforms or pillars: the first is plant breeding, continuing to improve the hybrids and varieties that we bring to the marketplace; plant biotechnology, where we actually add beneficial genes to the crops to improve the productivity even more; and the third critical pillar is about the agronomic practices that are used in the production of these crops – all of the things that we pull together around plant populations, row spacing, conservation tillage and other practices that are actually able to help us optimize the value of the new technology and hybrids that we’re bringing to the marketplace. Gothenburg will be a location where we’re testing and demonstrating all three pillars together as a holistic system for the farmer.”
Location
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Audio Transcript: “We chose Gothenburg as the location for our new learning center because it sits at the transition between the Western dry land acres in corn production and the Eastern irrigated acres. So, it’s really uniquely situated for testing the types of environment we need for our new technology like drought-tolerance, nitrogen utilization and the new hybrids we’re bringing to the marketplace.”
Showcasing Technology
TRT:12 OC:drought-tolerant corn."
Audio Transcript: “We’ll have new technologies for the marketplace like Genuity SmartStax™ Corn, Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans and even some of our early pipeline technologies like drought-tolerant corn.”
Production of corn crop
TRT:50 OC:production of corn crop."
Audio Transcript: “Some of the agronomic practices that will be highlighted at Gothenburg include irrigated and non-irrigated plots. We actually have the capability to compare plots in a side-by-side situation in a dry land scenario and irrigated scenario and even different types of irrigation with different position technologies to control the levels of irrigation we use. Within those situations which are so critical to corn production in the Nebraska environment, we’ll be looking at planting populations, different row spacings, different uses of seed treatments like Acceleron, different plant protection agents like fungicides, different tillage system and really the entire system of agronomic practices that are used in the production of corn crop.”
