Seeing The Greenhouses

Chuck Zimmerman

Scientist In GreenhouseThe longest part of our tour was in the greenhouses. Our host here was Dawn McNamara.

She says they have 50,000 square feet of space here. About half of the greenhouse space is 20 years old and half was built around 2000. The newer green house areas have taller roofs so they can grow taller plants. We saw some corn that was about 16 ft. tall! It was very jack-in-the-beanstalk like.

They have 10 full time workers in this area. All the plants are color code labelled and bar coded. This allows them to very easily control the plants and the data coming from them. All their seed stock is bar coded too.

Agribusiness, Biotech