October 08
Jack Spaulding
joins Seed Consultants, Inc. as Area Seedsman serving central
Indiana
Verenium
Corporation appoints Gregory Powers Executive Vice President of
Research and Development
Rijk Zwaan director
lays down his function as per July 2009
Benjamin L. Morales
joins United Genetics as Production Manager
Dr. Bruno
Rossolini joins United Genetics as Director of Sales for
Strategic Accounts in Europe and the Middle East
Sam Cable,
Export/Seed Position Manager at Barenbrug USA, featured on
Seed World’s Giant Views of the Industry
Germination’s
video series, Giant Views of the Industry, features Dale
Adolphe, Executive Director of the Canadian Seed Growers’
Association
Ceres adds CFO
ahead of seed business launch
ALMACO promotes
Shad Mallady to Marketing Consultant
Seedsmen
Association of Andhra Pradesh, India elects Mr. G.V.Bhaskar
Rao, as President of the Association for a second term
September 08
HeinzSeed names
Claudio Leggieri to the position of Regional Sales Manager –
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Pioneer Hi-Bred
Limited names Harry Bekkering Livestock End-Use Markets
Specialist in Western Canada
Pioneer Hi-Bred
Limited names Robert Larmer Dairy Key Accounts Specialist for
Southwestern Ontario, Canada
Mycogen Seeds
expands agronomy services team, hires Travis Belt and Byron
Hendrix
Randy Lusher
joins BASF Turf & Ornamentals as Sales Specialist
Ellen Kullman to
become Dupont's President, Director, CEO
Priscila Vansetti
appointed Business Director of DuPont Canada Crop Protection
Division
INCOTEC
Innovation Award 2008 for Mr. Jan de Boer
U.S. Organic
Trade Association names new Executive Director
Siegers Seed
Company announces new professional seed consultant
Syngenta Board
appoints new Head of Global R&D to Executive Committee, proposes
retiring Head to join Board of Directors
Le Conseil d’administration nomme
un nouveau Head of Global R&D à l’Executive Committee et propose
que le titulaire sortant du poste rejoigne le Conseil
d’administration
Verwaltungsrat beruft
Dr. Alejandro Aruffo als neuen Leiter Forschung & Entwicklung in
die Geschäftsleitung - Bisheriger Leiter, Dr. David Lawrence,
wird als neues Verwaltungsrats- mitglied vorgeschlagen
Bayer
CropScience promotes Rod Merryweather to North American
Oilseeds Business Operations Manager
Newest Giant
Views of the Industry interview posted on seedworld.com
Mike Langan
named Sales Manager ag Burrus Hybrids
Horizon
Genetics strengthens executive team and positions company
for future growth - Consumer products veteran Brian Kiernan
named President and CEO
BASF Canada
appoints Brian Denys as Business Director for its crop
protection division
August 08
Wheat breeder
Professor Stephen Jones named Director of Washington State
University's Research and Extension Center at Mount Vernon
Ahern International
Seeds hires veteran seedsman Joe Sands as Director, Sales &
Marketing for the Gulf of Mexico and Central America
Great Lakes
Hybrids' Jeff Reinbold wins Limagrain's prestigious AGORA
Sales Award
Karen Withers of
Pennington Seed is the recipient of Seed World's second
annual Future Giants of the Seed Industry Award
American Seed
Trade Association introduces new slate of leadersship
Worldwide
SoyTechnologies LLC adds molecular biologist to staff
Wyffels Hybrids
names new Recruitment and Skill Development Manager
GreenLeaf
Genetics names Dr. Dana Eaton head of product development
Peter Thorn
named CEO of Westrup A/S
Fontanelle
Hybrids adds Krista Schifferns as a District Sales Manager
July 08
Monsanto appoints
Lisa Safarian to the position of President and General
Manager of its Canadian business operations
Monsanto Canada
announces new appointments in canola and crop protection
business
Jim Rouse named
executive director of the Iowa Crop Improvement Association
Jim Blome joins
AgriCapital Advisors
Seed industry
veteran Michael Stephenson joins energy crop company Ceres,
Inc. as Vice President of Operations
Seed industry
veteran Michael Stephenson joins energy crop company Ceres,
Inc. as as Vice President of Operations
Iowa State
University's Dr.Manjit Misra named Dean's Chair for
Distinction in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Texas AgriLife
Research professor and cotton breeder Dr. John R. Gannaway
retires
Tom Peterson joins
Becker Underwood's Seed Enhancement Business Unit as Western
Territory Manager
Andy Bowen joins
Fontanelle Hybrids as District Sales Manager covering
several counties in northeast Nebraska
Seminis Americas
leadership changes
AgVenture Hobart
Brothers expands territory, adds three District Sales
Managers
Mehmet Tulbek
named Technical Director of the Northern Crops Institute
June 08
EMD Crop BioScience
expands product development department
Ahern International
Seeds hires Ing. Armando Luna as technical sales representative
for Northern Sinaloa and Southern Sonora
Thavy Un joins BASF
Turf & Ornamentals as Marketing Manager
General Assembly of
EuropaBio confirms Willy De Greef as new Secretary General to
lead association
Dr. Wilf Keller
appointed as the new President and CEO of Genome Prairie
Germain's Technology
Group appoints new Customer Services Manager and Production
Manager at its Dutch production site
New Sales Manager at
Seed Processing Holland BV
Enza Coastal Seeds
hires George Thacher as Area Sales Manager for the Salinas,
California area
Seminis hires
Technical Sales Manager for Mexico greenhouse market
Owen J. Newlin and
Dr. Manjit Misra honored at Iowa State University's annual
Distinguished Awards Celebration
AgVenture hires
seed industry professional Brian Zeeb to serve as President
of two long-standing independent regional seed companies
Great Lakes
Hybrids promotes Doug Little to Brand Manager
The Asia & Pacific
Seed Association welcomes Dr. Zenaida Nisperos Ganga as its
new Deputy Director
Dr. Ainong Shi
joins Indiana Crop Improvement Association as Genetics Lab
Supervisor
Ahern
International Seeds promotes Ing. Raul Piceño
Becker Underwood
promotes industry veteran Kyle Payne to national accounts
manager for U.S. inoculant sales
Dan Swalla joins
Renze Hybrids, Inc. as Sales and Marketing Manager
May 08
Wyffels Hybrids hires
District Sales Managers in eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois
Dr Andries Koops
appointed as manager of the business unit Bioscience of Plant
Research International
Nunhems USA promotes
Margy Van Zant to Customer Service Manager
American seed industry
honors Dr. Roger Krueger
AgVenture Spangler
Seed builds leadership team
Rabo AgriFinance
names John J. Ryan New President and CEO
BASF appoints vice
president to U.S. crop protection division
Bob Yaklich joins
Nunhems USA as part of expanded focus on value-added seed
technology
Tally Zangy joins
the sales department of Seed Processing Holland
April 08
Monsanto Company
adds Janice L. Fields to its Board of Directors
Willy De Greef
appointed New Secretary General of EuropaBio
Seed Veteran Mike
Bieret signs with AgVenture Hobart Brothers as Sales and
Marketing Manager
Seminis hires
Technical Sales Manager for the greenhouse market in western
Canada and the United States
AUSVEG appoints
new chairman
Plant Health
Care, Inc. promotes Dr. Greg Lewis to Vice President,
Corporate Development
Breann Hammann
joins Becker Underwood as Southern Territory Manager for its
seed enhancement business unit
Rabobank America
creates new agricultural advisory board
March 08
Renze Hybrids
welcomes Craig Williams as new Operations Manager
Führungswechsel bei
der Gemeinschaft zur Förderung der privaten deutschen
Pflanzenzüchtung e.V.
Dr. Jane Kveton Dever
named Associate Professor - Cotton Breeding at Texas AgriLife
Research
Newest installment of
Seed World’s groundbreaking video series, Giant Views of the
Industry On-line, features Tom Strachota, Chief Executive
Officer of Dairyland Seed
Fontanelle adds
regional agronomist
David Stamp named
National Sales Manager at NC+ Hybrids
Innovationspreis
Gregor Mendel 2008 an Prof. Dr. Gerhard Röbbelen - Raps: ein
leuchtendes Beispiel für die Pflanzenforschung
Germain’s Technology
Group appoints a new European Horticulture Sales and Marketing
Manager
United Soybean Board
and soybean checkoff recognizes industry leaders
Appointment of Frank
Barenbrug as Member of the Board of Directors of the Royal
Barenbrug Group
Onafhankelijke jury
unaniem: Dieuwertje van der Does winnares Rijk Zwaan Plant
Sciences Award 2007
Independent jury unanimous: Dieuwertje van der Does wins Rijk
Zwaan Plant Sciences Award 2007
United Genetics hires
Pat Boleda as NAFTA Sales Manager
Roger Sawheny
joins United Genetics Seeds Co. as the Customer Service and
Logistics Manager
February 08
AVRDC, The World
Vegetable Center, appoints new Director General
Alexandre José
Cattelan é o novo chefe geral da Embrapa Soja
Plant Health Care,
Inc. promotes Mike Cloutier to Vice President of World
Agricultural Sales
Mississippi
State University Extension hires new soybean specialist
Eduardo Negre
appointed General Manager of G.T.G. España Seed Coating and
Enhancement Services S.A.
Lee Rulon of
Beck’s Hybrids receives Indiana Crop Improvement
Association's 2008 Crops and Soils Merit Award
Ray Wu,
Cornell University's acclaimed pioneer of genetic
engineering and developer of insect-resistant rice, dies at
79
Kansas Crop
Improvement Association elects new executive officers
Gary Sanders
joins Americot, Inc. as Sales Representative for
southwestern U.S. sales
Dulaney Seed,
Inc. grows, hires Stephen Lary as a Professional Crop
Planner
Seeds of
Change announces several new positions
Nunhems USA
adds John Erb as Carrot Crop Sales Manager
Plant Health
Care, Inc. announces Rick Rice as New Director, Sales &
Marketing
Lisa O'Brien
to serve as executive director of the United Soybean Board
(USB) and soybean checkoff
January 08
At Nunhems USA,
Russ Kabaker takes on new role as Integration Manager for the
Paragon Seeds acquisition and Lettuce Crop Sales Manager for the
Americas
Dr. Gary Whiteaker
joins Verdant Partners
AgVenture Lakeland
Seed Co. hires seed service agent
U.S. National
Academy of Sciences recognizes Monsanto's Chief Technology
Officer for development of agricultural biotechnology
Germain’s
Technology Group North America appoints Mario Rivas as Head of
Sales and Marketing, North and South America
CSIRO Plant
Industry’s Dr Greg Constable receives “Outstanding Research in
Cotton Physiology Award”
Nunhems USA names
Jeff Boettge Crop Sales Manager for onions and hot peppers
Syngenta announces
two key appointments
In Memoriam - Dr.
Roger W. Krueger
Devgen strengthens
management team by appointing Mr. Bipin Solanki as CEO of Devgen
Seeds and Crop Technology in India
IJs van Dok,
founder of Seed Processing Holland BV, passes away
Germain Dauk named
BASF Pulse Promoter of the Year
USDA/APHIS makes
key management changes
Delta and Pine
Land's Tom Kerby retires, remains with business as consultant
U.S. Organic Trade
Association names new Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Dr. Gene
Hookstra joins STA Laboratories as General Manager of
Genetic Services
National Seed
Association of India elects members of its 2008 Governing
Council
December 07
Seed
Processing Holland BV, appoints sales manager for China
荷兰种子加工设备有限公司指定负责中国市场的业务经理
Northern Crops
Institute selects Brian Sorenson as its new Director
Brad Kortsen
appointed Sales and Marketing Manager at INCOTEC USA
New President
and CEO of Enza Zaden North America
BASF Plant
Science names NutriDense forage specialist for the Upper
Midwest region of the U.S.
Devgen
appoints Wim Goemaere as Chief Financial Officer
Hollar Seeds
appoints new president - Andy Medina named President, Larry
Hollar Chairman of the Board
Paul Schmidt
joins EMD Crop BioScience as President
Relevance of
rice research recognized
Syngenta’s
Dale Nicol named CAPCA Member of the Year
Emerald Seed
Company appoints Robert (Bob) Brown as Sales and Marketing
Manager
November 07
Bruce Paterson
joins Plant Health Products as Marketing Manager
Leading Iowa State
University grain economist Robert Wisner retires
Jim Elam joins
Siegers Seed Company as seed consultant for Tennessee, Iowa,
Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and southern Illinois and Indiana
New members named
to the U.S. National Watermelon Promotion Board
Thomas Lübberstedt
named director of the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding
in the Plant Sciences Institute at Iowa State University
AgVenture's Jim
Groepper passes the gavel of the Iowa Seed Association
Bayer CropScience
LP, the U.S. business of Bayer CropScience AG, announces new
BioScience leadership team
Illinois Crop
Improvement Association retains Dr. Charles Lay to provide
on-going technical and educational support to staff members
Dr. Digvir Jayas
joins the Agri-Food Research and Development Initiative (ARDI)
Council
New American Seed
Trade Association staff to focus on communications and seed
health
Dr. Christian
Verschueren steps down as Director General of CropLife
International
African farmer
and world agricultural leader announced as President of the
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Mycogen Seeds
adds three new district agronomists
Monsanto
Canada appoints new Director, Regulatory Affairs
Lisa Nichols
joins ASTA as Director of International Programs
DuPont
business Pioneer Hi-Bred announces leadership changes
Antoon
Santegoeds joins ASTEC as Director of Sales & Marketing
Australia's
Cotton Catchment Communities CRC appoints Philip Armytage as
its new CEO
October 07
Kincannon & Reed
executive search announces management changes
Syngenta announces
the appointment of Davor Pisk as Chief Operating Officer Seeds
Syngenta gibt die Ernennung von Davor Pisk zum Chief
Operating Officer Seeds bekannt
Syngenta annonce la désignation de Davor Pisk au poste de Chief
Operating Officer Seeds
Tracy Beran joins
Fontanelle Hybrids in the new position of Manager of Production
Services
Four new district
sales managers to market Arise seed for Brown Seed Enterprises
in Southern Illinois
Dr Thomas Lumpkin
to be the new Director General of the International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Illinois Foundation
Seeds, Inc. completes management transition
Paul Mullan is
appointed Managing Director of Germain’s Technology Group
CropLife Canada
announces staff changes
UC Davis seed
biologist Kent Bradford acknowledged as “outstanding faculty”
Stephen
McCutcheon to head Food Standards Australia New Zealand
INCOTEC appoints
Chief Financial Officer
September 07
Joerg Ellmanns to
head up Bayer CropScience Australia
Willem Schrage
joins North Dakota State Seed Department as director of potato
programs
Royal Dutch
decoration for dr. ir. O.M.B. (Orlando) de Ponti, retiring as
Director of Research & Development at Nunhems BV.
Peter Beetham
promoted to Senior Vice President of Research at Cibus LLC
WARDA appoints
new Assistant Director General for Research & Development
Northern
Crops Institute Director Pat Berglund announces December
retirement
Australia's
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science awarded to two CSIRO
scientists for their discovery and development of a gene
silencing mechanism
Rebecca Bech
named USDA/APHIS deputy administrator for biotechnology
regulatory services
Cindy J.
Smith appointed as administrator of the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
BASF
Agricultural Products appoints Paul Rea director of
Specialty Products Division
AgVenture,
Inc. Brian Sims as District Sales Manager in Southwest
Indiana
Apex Seeds
appoints Ray Osburn as Asian Sales Manager based in
Shanghai, China
August 07
Becker Underwood
names Stephanie Zumbach and Charlie Hale as Product Managers
in the seed enhancements group
Three
consultants join The Context Network
CGIAR appoints
Dr. Ren Wang as director of its global network of 15
research centers
American
Phytopathological Society Foundation names 2007 award
recipients
Kincannon & Reed
announces appointment of Jon Leafstedt as new director
Golden Acres
Genetics announces new sales representative for Central
Texas
July 07
Jim McCullagh
receives CSTA Seed Achievement Award
Alejandro Hernandez
wins 2007 Plant Breeding and Genetics Award
Tim Welbanks
elected 2007-08 President of the Canadian Seed Trade
Association
Fontanelle Hybrids
announce the addition of three new District Sales Managers
Dr. Thomas Brooks
joins Americot, Inc. as Director of Quality Assurance and
Assistant Breeder
Chris Zanobini
appointed Executive Vice President of the California Seed
Association
Syngenta board
announces Chief Financial Officer succession
Syngenta Verwaltungsrat gibt Nachfolge für den Chief
Financial Officer bekannt
Annonce du Conseil d’administration: succession du Chief
Financial Officer
Michael Campbell joins
the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis as Executive Director
Giant Views of the Industry
Online:
Seed World presents video interview with
Nona Wolfram-Koivula,
Executive Director of All-America Selections and the
National Garden Bureau
Chile: Nuevo
Directorio de Asociación Nacional de Productores de Semillas
(ANPROS)
Texas A&M
Agriculture's Dr. Norman Borlaug to receive U.S.
Congressional Gold Medal
Founder of
Uganda's Victoria Seeds Ltd. awarded African Green
Revolution Yara Prize for 2007
First Executive
Director named to the Postharvest Technology Research and
Information Center at UC Davis
BASF Board of
Executive Directors: new team as of 2008
Mit neuem BASF-Vorstandsteam ins Jahr 2008
Gianni Bernardotto
appointed Director of Marketing and Sales at De Ruiter Seeds
June 07
Hein Bemelmans joins
the Board of Enza Zaden as Director of Marketing & Sales
Jim Rouse named
interim director of the Iowa Crop Improvement Association
Pacific Seeds
International Division changies its name to Advanta
International
AgResearch appoints Dr
Travis Glare as new General Manager of Science Strategy
Giant Views of the Industry
Online:
Seed World presents video interview with
Bill Romp, Business Unit Manager
for the Becker Underwood Seed Coatings Unit
Iowa State University
names new endowed chairs in the areas of crop genomics and
biorenewable crop research
Purdue University food
science professor winner of World Food Prize for his
contributions to food processing and preservation
EuropaBio elects new
Chairman to lead association over next two years
Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa appoints former UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan as Chairman of the Board
Syngenta board
announces Chief Executive Officer succession plan
Syngenta Verwaltungsrat gibt Nachfolgeregelung für CEO
bekannt
Le conseil d’administration de Syngenta annonce un plan de
succession pour le poste de Chief Executive Officer
Gray’s Seed hires new
Sales and Marketing Manager
Seed veteran joins
Harris Moran as Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Seed World
announces recipient of the first Future Giants of the
Seed Industry Award
Syngenta announces
transformation of its North American corn and soybean seeds
and traits business to serve more customers
Devgen's board of
directors appoints Pol Bamelis as chairman
May 07
Mycogen Seeds announces
the promotion of Terry Gardner as National Channel Manager and
Dave Schumacher as Senior Marketing Specialist, Grain Corn
Garst Seed Company
names two new agronomists in Iowa
Meet Elizabeth Pivonka,
the newest Giant in Seed World’s groundbreaking series of video
interviews
Dr. James Radtke named
Vice President of Product Development at Cibus LLC
Hughes Hybrids names Sales
Manager
Golden Acres Genetics announces new Operations Manager
Syngenta Seeds, inc. appoints Steve Goff to Science Advisor for corn and
soybean seeds and crop genetics research
Craig Morris named Deputy Administrator of USDA Agricultural Marketing
Service Livestock and Seed Program
Garst Seed Company hires new agronomist in Nebraska
SemBioSys CEO named as an officer of the BIO Board of Directors
Karl J. Kisner appointed Marketing Manager for BASF Professional Turf &
Ornamentals
New CEO announced for Crop & Food Research New Zealand
Nunhems USA expands its crop team structure throught new hires and
promotions
Dr Norman Borlaug: The commitment continues
Carl Moberg joins
EMD Crop BioScience as North American Marketing Manager
April 07
Golden Harvest Seeds
promotes Eric Keetle and Doug Ronk to Regional Sales Managers
Introducing Steve
Ainsworth, Cotton Seed Distributors' new General Manager
Jan Derksen joins
Germain’s Technology Group Netherlands
Meet Bryan Gerard,
the newest Giant in Seed World’s groundbreaking series of video
interviews
Dr. Dawn
Gustafson to lead Pannar Seed research station in Huron,
South Dakota
DuPont to help
meet growing demand for plant breeders - Partnership with
Purdue University develops scientists to address global
demand for grain
International
Seed Federation (ISF) appoints new Secretary General
BASF Professional
Turf & Ornamentals appoints Steve Larson national
ornamentals account manager
Becker Underwood
promotes Steve Bergschneider to Regional Sales Manager for
the Northern U.S.
March 07
Fourth generation
Barenbrug appointed President/CEO
Geri Berdak joins
Monsanto Company as Director of Public Affairs for the
oilseeds and chemistry businesses
Nunhems, the
global specialist in vegetable seeds, announces the
appointment of Dr. Johan Peleman as Managing Director
Research & Development
Seedway hires
Product and Market Development Manager
Biopesticide
industry alliance names new executive director
February 07
Neal Gutterson is
promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of Mendel
Biotechnology, Inc.
Dr. Donald Floyd
named “Breeder of the Year” by the U.S. Turfgrass Breeders
Association
Chris Hopkins
joins Bayer CropScience FiberMax cotton seed team as U.S.
Southeast agronomist
Siegers Seed
Company announces new consultant for Ontario, Canada
Allan Parker
appointed President & CEO, World Potato Congress Inc.
Ampac Seed hires
Marcy Arbelbide as sales representative
Jim
Hoyt named GROWMARK vice president
of strategic planning and corporate services
Jeff Weber joins
INCOTEC, Inc. as Account Manager
Dr Bent
Skovmand, Director of the Nordic Gene Bank, has passed away
PestFax Editor
Peter Mangano receives GRDC Seed of Light award
Inventor of
Roundup to be inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Dr. John Franz to join Eli Whitney, John Deere, and George
Washington Carver for technological advances in agriculture
Zeraim Gedera adds new key industry players to its
North
American
marketing team,
sets three
new areas of operations
Distinguished
vegetable breeder Dr. Fred Angell retires
January 07
Dr. Wilhelm Graf
von der Schulenburg, Ehrenvorsitzender des Bundesverbandes
Deutscher Pflanzenzüchter, feiert 75. Geburtstag
Syngenta honors
organizer of U.S. National No-Tillage Conference with special
No-Till Innovator Award
New General Manager
at Semillas Harris Moran Mexicana
INCOTEC's
Kyle W. Rushing named 2007 College Alumni of the Year
Dr. John Thompson,
Australia’s leading authority on long fallow disorder in cereal
cropping soils, awarded public service medal
Frederick Schreurs
joins Astec Global as Global Director New Business
University of
Sasktachewan's Crop Development Centre announces Dorothy Murrell
as new Managing Director
Latham Seed Company
hires Doug Sayler as South Dakota Sales Manager
New Mexico
State University researcher receives national turfgrass
science award
Seedsmen
Association of Andhra Pradesh, India elects new President
for the biennium 2006-08
American Seed
Trade Association expands legislative and regulatory staff
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