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Agriculture in the 21st century
Results of the GMO Compass snapshot poll

According to the position of many experts, agriculture across the world is facing a trend reversal: Global food stocks are nearly used up, climate change can lead to significant yield losses in certain regions and the prices for staple foods are rising worldwide. In addition, competition between the cultivation of renewable raw materials (fuel, synthetics, etc.) and the production of foods keeps increasing.

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What the small-time sellers of seed need to know before they sell seed in California

by John Heaton
Senior Agricultural Biologist
California Department of Food and Agriculture
Nursery, Seed AND Cotton Program


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GIANT VIEWS


Ron Wulfkuhle
CEO
GreenLeaf Genetics


Tom
Stearns

Owner
High Mowing Organic Seeds

Tom Strachota
Chief Executive Officer
Dairyland Seed


Dean Oestreich
Chairman, Pioneer Hi-Bred
Vice President, DuPont

Frédéric Royer
CEO, Doriane SAS, a publisher of software for the management of experiments in biotechnologies

Les rencontres de personnes originales ont été déterminantes pour mon parcours professionnel

Meeting creative people was a determining factor in my professional career

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Dirk Inzé
Vice-President and Scientific Director
European Plant Science Organization
(EPSO)
VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology
UGent, Belgium

An ever-growing role for plant sciences

Seed industry executives who brought to their current position the experience of a successful management career in another industry answer the following questions:

Intro

Kelly Kincannon, Kincannon & Reed
 
Paul Bennett, Sakata Seed
Rami Dar, Hazera Genetics
Aline Funk, Channel Bio
Monika Lekander, Svalof Weibull
Roland Peerenboom, Enza Zaden
Manny Shemin, Genesis Seeds
Pete Siggelko, Dow AgroSciences
Jim Tobin, Monsanto Company
Mark Wilson, Germains' Technology Group

Closing remarks

Dean Cavey, Verdant Partners

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