Monsanto Breaks Ground For Mississippi Corn Research Center. More Bad News For The Delta.
This week, Monsanto broke ground on its fourth research facility in Mississippi. Significantly, this one – unlike those in Leland, Scott and Winterville – won’t be in the Delta. This new 300-acre corn research center will be sited at Flora in Madison County, just up U.S. 49 from Jackson.
The county has been one of the state’s growth areas in the last 20 years. It already was a thriving, expanding bedroom community for Jackson. But when Nissan started building a car plant there early in the last decade, developers couldn’t push down pine trees fast enough. More subdivisions, more schools, more four-lane roads. An upscale mall and high-rise hotels and office complexes sprang up.
