Greenhouses for the Future
by Melissa Shipman | Seed World
The Marana site features 7 acres (2.8 hectares) or 300,000 sq. ft (28,000 sq. meters) of greenhouses.
In March, Bayer opened its first automated greenhouse facility in Marana, Ariz., providing 300,000 square feet of indoor growing space as a new global product design center for corn.
Matt Lingard, Bayer’s Marana Product Development Center Lead, says the company’s latest and most technically advanced greenhouse facility is a big step forward for Bayer in using controlled environments to develop and accelerate production of new products into the company’s research and development pipeline.
The new greenhouse is not designed to replace Bayer’s other breeding programs, but rather complement and accelerate those efforts. Bayer believes traditional genomic breeding and field testing is still necessary.
