Research Partners
MONSANTO/Dekalb-Asgrow Seeds
Monsanto's focus as an agricultural company is on the farmer. We've built our business by offering farmers new choices that make them more productive and profitable. Today, our strategy is focused on our seeds and traits business. We currently invest almost $1.5 million a day to look for and bring to market the innovative technologies that our customers tell us make a difference. Our first products with biotechnology input traits - like Roundup Ready, Bollgard and YieldGard - have proved their worth in the field for almost a decade.
Monsanto's technology has set the standard. It is a leadership position Monsanto has earned. Driven by the success of our products and technology in the field, our seeds and traits business has prospered. Our initial success sets the stage for our growth and for the next generation of innovation.
Dekalb-Asgrow Seed companies of Monsanto are working as a team with Orthman Manufacturing right on the Orthman Farm near Lexington. Orthman is teaming up with the specialists at the Gothenburg, Nebraska Monsanto Learning Center to provide strip-till in designated plots. Orthman has teamed with the Monsanto Team who work at the Irrigation Research Foundation facility near Yuma, Colorado since 2000 and continue to work side-by-side this year in 2010.
Please press VIEW PROJECTS button to see what we are joining with Orthman in.
3/3/2010 - Monsanto and Orthman Team Up to Offer Training to Growers
“"Since 2001 Monsanto has worked pointedly to be available to train and educate growers with an advanced agronomic systems approach at the IRF, that incorporates better tillage systems, better fertilizer placement, smart water management especially for the limited irrigation well farmers and provide top quality and proven varieties for the Western Corn Belt farmer."”
More and more the selections for seed are offering farmers options of sustaining high yields. At the IRF in conjunction with Orthman Mfg and Monsanto scientists/agronomists the annual training events during the IRF Farm Show have help change the way the Western Arid Corn Grower manages his/her crops.
Contact:Charles Corey-IRF Farm Director
3/2/2010 - In 2010 Dekalb Leads the Way in Strip-Till Research in Limited Irrigation
“Some of the research: varying corn populations under limited irrigation scenarios, specific Dekalb hybrids that can handle the stress of low humidity, heat, long stretches without rainfall, and how tillage affects those studies. In photo Jeff Tichota is verifying seed placement in irrigation trial. ”
At the Irrigation Research Foundation near Yuma, CO Monsanto is working continually to determine what hybrids, populations and water regimes make a difference for the dry semi-arid western Corn Belt farmer has to deal with. Come by and see what Jeff Tichota and the IRF along with Orthman Mfg are doing to give the grower the right system for your top yield potentials.
Contact:Jeff Tichota-Monsanto
2/20/2010 - 2008 - Dekalb Root Architecture Study at IRF
“"Learning more about the below ground roots and root development has made me a better technical specialist for Monsanto and what we offer growers now with our hybrids will help them stay in the profit column," says Jeff Tichota, Monsanto TDR.”
Dekalb is one of the first to join in with Colorado Corn Growers and the IRF to dig deeper into how corn variety selection and root development makes a difference in selection or which corn does well in the Western Corn Belt.
Contact:Jeff Tichota-Monsanto, Mark Sponsler-Colorado Corn or Charles Corey-IRF
