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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2015
Biotech, data science take ag center stage
Monsanto
execs discuss
opportunities,
challenges
‘Sometimes
we talk about
farmers as
if they were
separate
from society.
The reality is,
they are at
the heart of
society.’
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
ST. LOUIS — Population
increase, world food demand,
climate change, biotechnology
and data science mean agri-
culture is “much more at cen-
ter stage than it’s ever been,”
Monsanto’s chairman and
chief executive of¿cer said.
“Sometimes we talk about
farmers as if they were sepa-
rate from society,” Hugh Grant
said. “The reality is, they are at
the heart of society.”
In wide-ranging talks with
journalists touring Monsanto’s
&hester¿eld 9illage 5esearch
Facility outside St. Louis,
Grant and other Monsanto
executives ¿elded Tuestions
ranging from GMO controver-
sies to the company’s attempt
to buy rival Syngenta. Several
acknowledged the company
has been slow to engage GMO
critics and was surprised by
the vitriolic reaction to Mon-
santo’s work. Some said the
company must become more
transparent and better explain
its role in agriculture.
“What we need to do a
much better job on is ex-
plaining where food comes
from, how food is produced
and who’s producing it,” said
Grant, a native of Scotland
who became chairman and
CEO in 2012.
Turning to trends, Grant
said the westernization of Chi-
nese diets, with more red meat
consumption, drives the in-
creased demand for corn as an-
— Hugh Grant
Monsanto chairman and CEO
Eric Mortenson/Capital Press
Growth chambers at Monsanto’s Chesterfield Village research facility can duplicate any climate on earth.
imal feed. Of interest to North-
west growers, he said wheat has
not kept pace with yield gains
achieved in corn and soybeans
and “needs some help.”
The company in July
opened a wheat breeding and
research facility in Filer, Ida-
ho. Monsanto previously ex-
perimented with GMO wheat
but dropped it when Paci¿c
Northwest growers said their
buyers, particularly in Asia,
did not want it.
your eating habits are limited,”
he said. “The tragedy today is
you can have obesity and mal-
nourishment coexistent.”
5obb Fraley, Monsanto’s
chief technology of¿cer and
winner of the 2013 World
Food Prize along with two
others, said the world’s pop-
ulation is projected to top 10
billion by 2050.
The demand for food will
double, and production will
have to double in the Americas
and triple in Africa and Asia to
keep pace, Fraley said.
“It will take all the tools
that man can assemble,” he
said.
On climate change, a 1-
or 2-degree temperature rise
won’t turn the Midwest into a
desert but will usher in the rise
of new pests, weeds and dis-
eases, Fraley said.
But Fraley said biotechnol-
Eating habits
On other topics, Grant was
asked about Monsanto’s re-
sponsibility for obesity and
diabetes rates.
“My abilities to change
ogy and emerging data science
give researchers the ability to
respond by developing seeds
“gene by gene” while farmers
use drones, satellites and sen-
sors to map ¿elds “meter by
meter.”
“The average tractor has
more computer power in it than
the ¿rst spaceship that went to
the moon,” he said. “Better
seeds and data are driving the
next Green 5evolution.”
Fraley said Monsanto is
still interested in buying Syn-
genta and has sweetened its
offer to the Swiss ag chemical
company. Fraley said Monsan-
to would acTuire Syngenta’s
chemistry business and would
sell off Syngenta’s seed busi-
Eric Mortenson/Capital Press
Michael Frank, Monsanto’s global corn breeding lead,
walked reporters through greenhouses at the company’s
Chesterfield Village research center.
ness to assure competition.
Critics say Monsanto is seek-
ing a monopoly.
Other company executives
who spoke during the event
were Brett Begemann, presi-
dent and chief operating of¿-
cer, and Michael Frank, vice
president of global commer-
cial operations.
The 20 journalists attending
were part of the National Press
Foundation’s “Food, From
Farm to Table” fellowship
held July 19-22 in St. Louis.
Monsanto was a sponsor of
the fellowship, along with the
Organic Trade Association, the
American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and the AA5P Foun-
dation, which includes senior
nutrition among its concerns.
Monsanto’s sponsorship
was criticized on social media.
In a widely-shared post, the
website Eater.com said associ-
ating with a “highly polarizing
company with an aggressive
P5 agenda might not appear
to be the most logical course
of action for a journalism non-
pro¿t” such as the National
Press Foundation.
Eric Mortenson/Capital Press
Eric Mortenson/Capital Press
Monsanto Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant said biotechnol-
ogy allows for “sustainable intensification” of agriculture.
Monsanto was one of four sponsors of the National Press
Foundation’s “Farm, From Food to Table” fellowship in St.
Louis.
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