Tagging Seed Packets: The Latest
02 January, 2008
category: RFID
Okay, we admit it: the words “tagging” and “seeds” caught our attention, prompting us to pull up one very interesting news story.
Checkbiotech and RFID Journal are reporting that Monsanto, a multinational provider of bioengineered agricultural products, is planning to launch a technology trial in which it will evaluate the use of passive RFID tags to identify individual seed packets shipped from its Agracetus research and development facility in Middleton, Wis., to its network of test farms.
That’s where new, genetically engineered seed is tested, the Journal reports.