West Sacramento, CA (USA).

The Vegetable Seed Carrot team’s guiding principles of providing the highest level of added value services to key customers was displayed in a personalized visit to the West Sacramento facility for Grimmway Farms. Here they learned about the foundational programs and practices within Biologics and also integrated breeding with the foundational principles of solving challenges in vegetable crop improvements.

The Grimmway Team together with Paul Bender (Carrot Sales Specialist), Emily Watson (Carrot Crop Sales Manager), Emily Stirlen (Marketing and Communications Specialist), and Louise Lee (Test Kitchen Specialist) from Bayer.

The Biologics division gave an extensive overview of microbial based crop protection products, focusing on the background and the leading research utilized in the development of these innovative biological pest management solutions. Grimmway had full access to discuss agronomic concerns, obtain key insights to the strategic direction of the biologics group and received hands on tour of the global headquarters for the Bayer Biologics group.

Grimmway farms also received an up close look into integrated breeding programs. The group engaged in a tour of the Molecular and Cell Biology labs to learn about the processes which attribute to the successes in crop improvement. In the food lab and test kitchen, experienced hands on modules about applied theory regarding how carrot samples are evaluated for color, flavor and overall quality.

Emily Watson, Carrots Crop Sales Manager: "This visit was a perfect example of a successful key customer relationship. The ability for our customers to experience and access the knowledge, resources and innovation of this facility made the visit this experience a complete success. Due to the fact that West Sacramento is home to several divisions which support our vegetable seeds customers solidifies how much we as company are invested in being the leaders of innovation and I couldn’t be more impressed with the professionalism and customer focus from my colleagues."

An up close look at the Biologics and the Center of Excellence for Research and Development for Bayer’s biological crop protection products.

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Published: November 25, 2015