AB ANNAND Seed Services Ltd., a Corresponding ASTA Member in New Zealand, has another American in their team. Shawn Downs has accepted the position of Seeds Manager. 

ANNAND's new Seeds Manager, Downs, was most recently a vegetable seed production manager in the Willamette Valley. Shawn brings to the ANNAND Company over twenty years of experience in hybrid vegetable seed production. He has a degree from both Colorado Mountain College and Oregon State University.  

Shawn and his wife, Lena, and their two children Kiera and Patrick, are enjoying a summer Christmas this year and the life Down Under.  

AB ANNAND Seed Services is a contract seed production company in New Zealand and Australia, based in Christchurch. It is an old New Zealand company, now owned by American-Kiwi Jay Scanlon. ANNAND is the parent of seed producer AB ANNAND Seeds Services, Ltd. - a company that also has staff ownership.