Friday, April 8, 2011, 12:30pm EDT
In-Person / Local
110 T.W. Alexander Drive
RTP, NC 27709
United States| Time | Tour starts promptly at 12:30 PM – Arrive 10 minutes early |
| Option | 11:30 AM Lunch at Rudino’s – 4911 Central Park Lane, Durham, NC Off South Miami Blvd - corner of Central Park Lane and Roycroft Drive |
| Request | Bring closed toe / closed heel shoes, leg covering, safety glasses. |
| Fee | None for the Monsanto Tour; Buy your own lunch |
| Limit | The event is limited to 30 persons, so RSVP early |
| RSVP | Contact Tim Wallace at timwallace@embarqmail.com or (919) 552-6330 by March 31st. Meeting details can also be found here. |
Join us for a tour of Monsanto’s Research Greenhouse Facility. Monsanto handles 13,000 plants a day in a fully automated process between three greenhouses.
The plants are moved daily from the greenhouses to watering, weighing, imaging and fertilizing stations. When these steps are completed, the plants are returned to a different location in the greenhouses.
The goal of this research is to bring plants to the market with traits beneficial to farmers, such as drought tolerance.
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