Dr. Robert Fraley, Monsanto’s Chief Technology Officer, will be one of the presenters at the Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance conference on Wednesday, October 11 in St. Louis. Dr. Fraley will be a panel speaker at the “Liquid Fuels and Bioproducts: Supply and Demand” breakout session on Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Fraley will share his scientific vision of agriculture’s role in helping to fuel our future energy demands.

St. Louis is the home of Monsanto, so the company is also offering tours for conference participants of its Crop Analytics Lab samples are analyzed daily to understand seed components and the potential energy, protein, and oil they provide for use as feed, fuel and food.