Monsanto buys $4M plant in Casa Grande for cotton research

Becky Pallack, Arizona Daily Star
April 14, 2010 10:59 am

Agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. is expanding its research work in Pinal County, buying a new facility in Casa Grande.

Monsanto bought the year-old, 40,000-square-foot Pepsi distribution center in Casa Grande’s industrial district for $4 million.

The St. Louis-based company has about a dozen employees at a site in the town of Maricopa, where it has close ties to a University of Arizona research site.

The company also has an Eloy location, the former Delta and Pine Land Co. site, which it bought in 2007.

“The region represents an important agricultural environment for our cotton business,â€