September Meeting Keynote Speaker Kerry Preete

Our speaker at our first fall meeting was Kerry Preete, Vice President of U.S. Crop Production for Monsanto. Kerry gave an excellent overview of all the changes the company has undergone in recent years. He said that the company is now 100 percent agricultural focused.

He had way more material than we can summarize here. It was interesting to note that he said the company really got their start using chemicals to obtain a result but that the future is in engineering traits into plants that will generate the same result and mean that we don't have to use so many chemicals.