Press Release
Contact:
WI Sustainable Business Council
Tom Eggert
Executive Director
sustain@bus.wisc.edu
608 267-2761
Monsanto-Agracetus
Michele Amacker
Research Assistant
michele.l.amacker@monsanto.com
The WI Sustainable Business Council is pleased to announce the addition of Monsanto-Agracetus into the Green Masters Program.
Agracetus is the plant division of Monsanto Company. Its facility is located on 4.5 acres in Middleton, WI and contains approximately 100,000 square feet of research laboratories and a 35,000 square foot greenhouse. The site focuses on transgenic plant R&D, developing crops with improved agronomic and quality traits. It is also is home to the world’s largest soybean transportation laboratory.
“It’s important for innovative industries, such as biotechnology, to realize the potential and importance of sustainability. By constructing wind turbines on their farms and implementing a building automation system that minimizes lighting output in its greenhouses, Monsanto-Agracetus has incorporated sustainability into their business,” says Tom Eggert, Executive Director of the WI Sustainable Business Council.
The Green Professional designation is the second highest tier in the Green Masters Program established by the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council. Candidates are judged on a comprehensive range of sustainability issues from energy and natural resource use to education outreach and purchasing. 95 Wisconsin businesses have participated in the program where the top twenty percent achieve the highest “Green Master” designation. For more information, or a complete list of Green Masters Program participants, go to: http://www.greenmastersprogram.com.
