Agri Marketing articles from January 2003

Agri Marketing archives from January 2003

Companies.(Directory)
January 1, 2003... COMPANIES ABI ALFALFA, INC. 12351 W. 96th Terr, Suite 101, Lenexa, KS 66215; 913/599-2240, FAX: 913/599-2265 E-mail: datteri@abialfalfa.com Web site: www.abialfalfa.com Year established: 1960 Fiscal year: January-December...

Marketing services.(Directory)
January 1, 2003... DIRECT MARKETING & LIST RENTAL AGDATA 2100 Rexford Rd, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28211; 704/364-2186, FAX: 704/366-9603 E-mail: agdata.info@agiml.net Web site: www.agdata.net Year established: 1984 Number of employees: 120+...

Print.(publications)(Directory)
January 1, 2003... U.S. PUBLICATIONS AG ALERT 2300 River Plaza Dr, Sacramento, CA 95833; 916/561-5570, FAX: 916/561-5695 E-mail: agalert@cfbf.com Web site: www.cfbf.com Year first published: 1974 Parent co: California Farm Bureau Federation Farm...

Telephone directory.(Directory)
January 1, 2003... TELEPHONE DIRECTORY A 5METACOM, 317/580-7540 43, 115 ABI ALFALFA, INC., 913/599-2240 4 ABN-AGRI BROADCAST NETWORK 104 419/223-2060 ...

For openers.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Welcome to the New Year... I hope your holiday season was one filled with friends, family and good cheer! I also hope that you have set some personal and business goals that will take you where you want to be in the coming year. We have...

This month in Agri Marketing ...
January 1, 2003... Five Years Ago * Doane Marketing Research, St. Louis, acquires the agricultural business of Maritz Marketing Research, also of St. Louis. * DuPont, Wilmington, Del., forms an agricultural enterprise to focus resources on serving the...

Ag stock index.(Illustration)
January 1, 2003... STOCK PRICE AT CLOSE OF MARKET Month Ago Exchange: Ticker 10/31/02 CAPITAL EQUIPMENT, FARM MACHINERY AGCO Corp. ...

IMC Global. (At Closing People).(Norman Beug promotion)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... IMC Global Lake Forest, Ill., announces that Norman Beug has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the company's IMC Potash business unit in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan. Beug will succeed Robert Thompson, who is retiring after...

Ron Hess, formerly vice president and general manager for AGCO's ag chem division, Duluth, Ga., will assume of the role of vice president of sales and marketing for North America. (At Closing People).(personnal appointments)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Ron Hess, formerly vice president and general manager for AGCO's ag chem division, Duluth, Ga., will assume of the role of vice president of sales and marketing for North America. In his new role, Hess will be responsible for all sales,...

Michael Wilson, president and chief operating officer of Agrium Inc., is elected chairman of the Potash & Phosphate Institute (PPI) board of directors. (At Closing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Michael Wilson, president and chief operating officer of Agrium Inc., is elected chairman of the Potash & Phosphate Institute (PPI) board of directors. At Agrium, Wilson is responsible for North American wholesale and retail, South America,...

Monsanto Company. (At Closing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Monsanto Company, St. Louis, announces that Hendrik Verfaillie has resigned as chief executive officer Chairman Frank AtLee has stepped in and will serve as interim CEO while the company conducts an external search. The company says the...

Kent Feed. (At Closing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Kent Feeds, Muscatine, Iowa, announces that Kevin Zeimet has been named senior vice president, controller and assistant treasurer He will also have the responsibility of overseeing the Kent Feeds Commodities department in his new role. Zeimet...

Farm Progress Companies, Carol Stream, Ill., announces a management restructuring and the establishment of three new business regions for advertising sales and farm show operations. (At Closing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Farm Progress Companies, Carol Stream, Ill., announces a management restructuring and the establishment of three new business regions for advertising sales and farm show operations. Don Tourte has been selected as regional business manager for...

Monsanto Company. (At Closing News).(company given approval for YieldGard Corn Borer in the Philippines)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Philippines' Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry has given commercial approval to YieldGard Corn Borer, which was developed by Monsanto Company, St. Louis. This is the first biotech crop to be approved for commercial...

ProdiGene Inc. (At Closing News).(company fined more than $3 million in penalties)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ProdiGene Inc., College Station, Texas, will pay more than $3 million in penalties for mixing genetically engineered corn containing an animal vaccine with soybeans meant for humans, according to the Agriculture Department. The government fined...

JC Robinson Seeds, Waterloo, Neb., announces the purchase of the corn activities of Zelder, Ottersum, The Netherlands. (At Closing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... JC Robinson Seeds, Waterloo, Neb., announces the purchase of the corn activities of Zelder, Ottersum, The Netherlands. Previously, JC Robinson owned 51 percent and Zelder owned 49 percent of Golden Harvest-Zelder, a joint venture focused on the...

Monsanto Company, St. Louis, and Chemical Products Technologies dismiss their lawsuits against each other involving the use of glyphosate. (At Closing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Monsanto Company, St. Louis, and Chemical Products Technologies dismiss their lawsuits against each other involving the use of glyphosate. Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. In November 2001, Monsanto filed a lawsuit alleging that...

Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland, and Diversa, San Diego, announce a collaboration to establish a shared biotechnology research platform and to discover products. (At Closing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland, and Diversa, San Diego, announce a collaboration to establish a shared biotechnology research platform and to discover products. Under the agreement, Diversa will acquire certain technology rights from Syngenta in...

DuPont. (At Closing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DuPont, Wilmington, Del., announces that it will make proprietary wheat genome data available without restriction to public and private researchers. The data, which consists of more than 200,000 lines of expressed sequence tags, more than...

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Des Moines, Iowa, a subsidiary of DuPont, has announced the establishment of a commercial agricultural seed business in the People's Republic of China. (At Closing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Des Moines, Iowa, a subsidiary of DuPont, has announced the establishment of a commercial agricultural seed business in the People's Republic of China. The company has formed a joint venture with Denghai Seed...

Pioneer combines advertising, art. (FYI News & Notes).(Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. redesigns visitor's center)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Des Moines, Iowa, decided to combine art with advertising when it gave a new look to the company's Carver Visitor's Center. Inspired by the Andy Warhol soup-can style of modern art, artist David Pearson covered...

NAFB selects farm broadcaster of the year. (FYI News & Notes).(National Association of Farm Broadcasters)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The National Association of Farm Broadcasters (NAFB), Kansas City, Mo., named Bob Bosold as the 2002 Farm Broadcaster of the Year. Bosold, who currently serves as farm director for WAXX/WAYY Radio in Eau Claire, Wis., has worked for 25 years in...

CNH celebrates new production facility.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... CNH Global Lake Forest, Ill., celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony symbolizing the first Case IH MX Magnum range tractor to roll off the line at the manufacturing plant in Racine, Wis. Production was moved to the Racine Manufacturing Operations...

NAMA leader's message. (National NAMA News).
January 1, 2003... A new beginning. Isn't that how we all look at the start of a new year? It's an opportunity to refocus and reprioritize with the intention of making the coming year better than the last. We make a resolution or two, and most likely, even before...

Forum highlights expanding agriculture. (NAMA News).
January 1, 2003... The scope of agriculture is expanding. As an industry we are blending and interacting with industry levels closer to the consumer. The 2002 Agribusiness Forum addressed issues relating directly to this expansion, October 8-10, in Kansas City....

Forum features first annual ABEF golf outing. (NAMA News).
January 1, 2003... The Agri-Business Educational Foundation (ABEF) held it's first annual Golf Outing during the Agribusiness Forum. The event included light-hearted fun for a good cause. ABEF would like to thank Dave Knau (Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl.,Inc.) and his...

NAMA new members.(National Agri-Marketing Association)
January 1, 2003... The following people joined NAMA, CAMA or its affiliated councils from May 1 to October 31, 2002. The diverse agribusiness background represented by our members makes NAMA the foremost organization catering to agricultural professionals. Share...

Sakata rolls out new vegetable varieties. (FYI News & Notes).
January 1, 2003... Sakata Seed Company, Morgan Hill Calif., welcomed more than 500 distributors, growers, retailers, employees and industry partners to this year's Vegetable Field Day. Held in Salinas, Calif., the event exhibited more than 100 vegetable varieties...

FMC puts Ag retailers behind the wheel. (FYI News & Notes).
January 1, 2003... Ag retailers from 12 states converged on the Kansas Speedway to claim their new Ford Mustang convertibles after winning the cars in FMC's Mustang[R] insecticide sweepstakes. FMC kicked off the sweepstakes last spring, and retailers' names were...

Studying soybeans in space. (FYI News & Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... During a research mission that concluded with the return of Space Shuttle Atlantis, soybean seeds planted and nurtured by DuPont scientists germinated, developed into plants, flowered, and produced new seedpods in space. The 97-day growth...

Product marketing managers: the bottom line of the brand.
January 1, 2003... Editor's Note: Product marketing managers play a key role in agribusiness and agrimarketing today. Many in our industry know that market managers are key decision makers but are unaware of what this group does behind the scenes. Agri Marketing...

Stephens & Associates Advertising. (Agency People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Chuck Stephens, founder and president of Stephens & Associates Advertising, Overland Park, Kan., was honored as 2002 Marketer of the Stephens Year by the Business Marketing Association/Kansas City chapter.

Bader Rutter & Associates. (Agency People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Bader Rutter & Associates, Milwaukee, promotes Margie Graber to account supervisor Graber joined the agency in 1997 as an account executive working on the Dow AgroSciences account. She has played a key role in developing the vegetation and...

McKinley Communications. (Agency People).(names Teres Lambert account manager )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... McKinley Communications, Independence, Mo., names Teres Lambert account manager for Novartis Animal Vaccines Inc. She has 35 years of experience as a writer, advertising/PR specialist and beef producer Jennifer Ryan joins McKinley as a...

Gibbs & Soell Public Relations. (Agency People).(hires Courtney Hathaway )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Gibbs & Soell Public Relations, Raleigh, N.C., hires Courtney Hathaway as an account coordinator after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Christa Miller rejoins Gibbs & Soell as an account supervisor after a...

Jones and Thomas Communications. (Agency People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Jones and Thomas Communications, Decatur, Ill., hires Marvin Johnson as associate creative director/ senior copywriter Johnson has more than 13 years of experience in business and has held creative positions at several agencies, including...

Osborn & Bart, St. Louis, announces it has received a contract through the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), Washington, D.C., to develop a marketing plan for its new Backyard Woods Campaign. (Agency News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Osborn & Bart, St. Louis, announces it has received a contract through the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), Washington, D.C., to develop a marketing plan for its new Backyard Woods Campaign. The plan, which will...

Porter & Associates, Des Moines, Iowa, introduces Porter's MailCast[TM], a new system that combines streaming video with standard e-mails. (Agency News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Porter & Associates, Des Moines, Iowa, introduces Porter's MailCast[TM], a new system that combines streaming video with standard e-mails. The system also allows the sender to track the video e-mails and determine if they were opened, forwarded...

Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Indianapolis, awards a new brand awareness campaign to Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis. (Agency News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Indianapolis, awards a new brand awareness campaign to Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis. The agency will direct an integrated advertising, direct and public relations campaign aimed at reinvigorating the brand...

Purina Mills Horse Business Group, St. Louis, selects Left Field Creative, St. Louis, as advertising agency of record. (Agency News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Purina Mills Horse Business Group, St. Louis, selects Left Field Creative, St. Louis, as advertising agency of record. Left Field Creative was the smallest firm to participate in the six-agency review. Osborn & Barr, St. Louis, will retain the...

Agriculture Future of America. (Association News).(Dr. Norman E. Borlaug and Morton I. Sosland awarded)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Agriculture Future of America (AFA), Kansas City, Mo., honored Dr. Norman E. Borlaug and Morton I. Sosland with the organization's Leader in Agriculture Awards during the annual conference. Borlaug is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and has served...

Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association. (Association News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Jean Trobec has been promoted to senior vice president for the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association, St. Anne, Ill. Trobec has more than 12 years experience in the legislative and regulatory arena, including pesticide and fertilizer...

American Society of Agricultural Engineers. (Association News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, Mich., presented J. Kent Mitchell with the Hancor Soil and Water Engineering Award. Mitchell is a professor emeritus in the agricultural engineering department at the University of...

A federal judge in Montana ruled that the national beef checkoff program is constitutional, despite other recent rulings declaring similar checkoff programs to be a violation of free speech. (Association News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A federal judge in Montana ruled that the national beef checkoff program is constitutional, despite other recent rulings declaring similar checkoff programs to be a violation of free speech. Under the beef checkoff program, ranchers are...

Trimble, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Spraying Systems Co., Wheaton, Ill., join together to develop and market Global Positioning System (GPS)-based assisted steering for agriculture application control systems. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Trimble, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Spraying Systems Co., Wheaton, Ill., join together to develop and market Global Positioning System (GPS)-based assisted steering for agriculture application control systems. The integrated systems will be used to...

Valmont Irrigation. (Marketing News).(opens its fourth parts distribution center in the United States)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Valmont Irrigation, Valley, Neb., opens its fourth parts distribution center in the United States. Located in McCook, Neb., this center will serve as a Super Distribution Center, carrying more inventory than the other three centers. It will not...

Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, Ill., and Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., announce an agreement in which ADM will acquire the interest of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in World Ethanol. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, Ill., and Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., announce an agreement in which ADM will acquire the interest of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in World Ethanol. UCC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow,...

Bayer CropScience AG, Monheim, Germany, announces plans to sell a package of insecticides and fungicides to BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Bayer CropScience AG, Monheim, Germany, announces plans to sell a package of insecticides and fungicides to BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF will purchase assests and rights to the insecticides Fipronil and Ethiprole, as well as the...

Kent Feeds Inc. (Marketing People).(names Gerald "Jerry" F. Johnson as vice president of advertising and marketing resources)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Kent Feeds Inc., Muscatine, Iowa, names Gerald "Jerry" F. Johnson as vice president of advertising and marketing resources. Johnson joined the company in Johnson 1968 as a sales trainee and most recently served as vice president of marketing...

Ag Technologies International. (Marketing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Ag Technologies International, Owatonna, Minn., names Rob McClelland as vice president of sales and marketing. McClelland joins the company's permanent staff McClelland following a one-year stint as an interim business development consultant....

AGCO Corp. (Marketing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... AGCO Corp., Duluth, Ga., selects Gerard Carew to serve as director of sales and marketing for the Challenger brand in Australia, New Zealand and surrounding regions. Carew has spent a majority of his career with Caterpillar in the sales and...

Arvesta Corporation. (Marketing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Arvesta Corporation, San Francisco, announces the retirement of Desmond Byrne, executive director of Registration & Regulatory Affairs. Byrne joined Arvesta (then Tomen Pacific Agro) in 1992. During the past decade, his department grew from one...

Brock Manufacturing. (Marketing People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Richard Couture has been named an independent manufacturer representative for Brock Manufacturing, Milford, Ind. His responsibilities will include working with Brock and Beard dealers in marketing the company's line of grain dryers, grain...

Ag Venture. (Marketing News).(new company logo)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Ag Venture, Kentland, Ind., introduces a new company logo as it approaches 20 years in business. The company chose a look that better reflects the personality of the company today and its growing position in the marketplace. The sun and...

Interstate Seed. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Interstate Seed, West Fargo, N.D., announces three new canola varieties for the 2003 season. These include a Roundup Ready hybrid, Hyola 357RR Magnum; a Roundup Ready open pollinated variety, HyLite 225RR; and a Clearfield open pollinated...

The Kuhn Group, Saverne, France, will acquire Knight Manufacturing Corporation, Brodhead, Wis. Kuhn Knight Inc. will be the name of the new company, which will remain headquartered in Wisconsin. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Kuhn Group, Saverne, France, will acquire Knight Manufacturing Corporation, Brodhead, Wis. Kuhn Knight Inc. will be the name of the new company, which will remain headquartered in Wisconsin. The combination of Kuhn Farm Machinery, Vernon,...

BASF, Mount Olive, N.J., announces a licensing agreement with Advanta Seeds. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... BASF, Mount Olive, N.J., announces a licensing agreement with Advanta Seeds, Winnipeg, Manitoba, for rights to technology in the screening of imidazolinone herbicide tolerant canola seed varieties.

AGCO, Duluth, Ga., signs an agreement to acquire the assets of Sunflower Manufacturing Co. Inc., a product line of SPX Corporation. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... AGCO, Duluth, Ga., signs an agreement to acquire the assets of Sunflower Manufacturing Co. Inc., a product line of SPX Corporation. Sunflower, located in Beloit, Kan., is a leading producer of tillage, seeding and specialty harvesting...

Delta and Pine Land Company, Scott, Miss., announces that its joint venture with MaxyAg Inc., DeltaMax Cotton LLC, has initiated cotton transformation of a proprietary glyphosate tolerant gene. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Delta and Pine Land Company, Scott, Miss., announces that its joint venture with MaxyAg Inc., DeltaMax Cotton LLC, has initiated cotton transformation of a proprietary glyphosate tolerant gene. The company hopes this product will eventually...

The Scotts Co., Marysville, Ohio, and Monsanto Co., St. Louis, makers of a grass genetically designed to help keep golf courses free of weeds, have withdrawn their application to begin selling it after getting several questions from the U.S. Agriculture Department. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Scotts Co., Marysville, Ohio, and Monsanto Co., St. Louis, makers of a grass genetically designed to help keep golf courses free of weeds, have withdrawn their application to begin selling it after getting several questions from the U.S....

Wood Mackenzie, Edinburgh, Scotland, launches the Agrochemical Products Database 2002, providing commercial and technical data on 570 agrochemicals. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Wood Mackenzie, Edinburgh, Scotland, launches the Agrochemical Products Database 2002, providing commercial and technical data on 570 agrochemicals. The database provides five years of historical sales value and volume data, and five years of...

A federal bankruptcy court in Kansas City, Mo., gives final approval allowing Cargill Fertilizer Inc., Minneapolis, to purchase assets owned by Farmland Hydro, Tampa, Fla. (Marketing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A federal bankruptcy court in Kansas City, Mo., gives final approval allowing Cargill Fertilizer Inc., Minneapolis, to purchase assets owned by Farmland Hydro, Tampa, Fla. Farmland Hydro is a limited partnership owned equally between Hydro Agri...

Handle with care: two companies go the extra mile to deliver first-rate customer service. (Direct/Relationship Marketing).
January 1, 2003... Comparing corn to geraniums is akin to comparing the proverbial apples to oranges. But what is common between the seed corn industry and the floricultural crop market is the critical need for suppliers to support their sales with service that...

The right information the right way: reaching farmers one-on-one with agronomic information can drive sales. (Growth Stage[R]).
January 1, 2003... It is not news to anyone in the agriculture sector that producers need good information to be successful and that those who help to supply it can often garner fiscal rewards. Some new approaches to getting that information in producers' hands...

The evolution of a farm show: International Agri-Center Moves From Yearly Farm Show Host To Agriculture Hub).
January 1, 2003... A seed was planted in 1967 as three businessmen traveled the five-our trip from a farm show in Colusa, Calif., to Tulare, Calif. The travelers recognized a need for a regional farm exhibition and established the California Field and Row Crop...

Successful Farming. (Media News).(names Curt Blades as the newest member of its sales team)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Successful Farming, Des Moines, names Curt Blades as the newest member of its sales team. Blades joins the Western region office as a sales executive and will cover Missouri as well as several South Central and Southwestern states. Most...

The editorial staff of the new Growing Point magazine received a Sales Innovation Award at the annual conference for Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Des Moines, Iowa. (Media News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The editorial staff of the new Growing Point magazine received a Sales Innovation Award at the annual conference for Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Des Moines, Iowa. The award is given annually to the individual or team that most exhibits...

Prairie Farmer. (Media News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Prairie Farmer, published by Farm Progress Companies, Carol Stream, Ill., won its fourth Folio: magazine gold award for editorial excellence. The awards are given to magazines based on editorial content, design, production and how well each...

Primedia Business. (Media News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Primedia Business, Overland Park, Kan., announced the rollout of a seventh issue of Hay and Forage Grower. The additional November issue featured the first annual Alfalfa Variety Guide with information on nearly 170 alfalfa varieties from about...

The Rodale Institute. (Media News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Rodale Institute, Kutztown, Pa., launches New Farm online magazine as a training resource to farmers on organic regulations and farming. In addition to a course on transitioning to organic, three- to five-hour online courses to be launched...

KWMT-AM 540 Radio. (Media News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Clear Channel's KWMT-AM 540 Radio, Fort Dodge, Iowa, names Bruce Gaarder as director of farm programming. Previously, Gaarder was assistant farm director at Clear Channel's Oklahoma City Ag Hub. Before that, he was farm director at Nebraska...

Holy cow: back-to-basics still going strong. (Back to Basics).(public relations/promotional program doesn't have to die prematurely after three years)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Hey folks, I found an anomaly in public relations the other day. You know, a deviation from the normal or common rule--an abnormality. It shook me up so badly I decided to write a column about it. Come to think about it, I wrote a column about...

Upcoming meetings for Agri marketers.(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... FEBRUARY JAN. 29-FEB. 1: Cattle Industry Annual Convention & Trade Show, Nashville, Tenn. Contact 303/694-0305 or visit www.beef.org. JAN. 30-FEB. 1: American Corn Growers Association Convention, Charleston, S.C. Contact 202/463-0863...

Garst tagline reflects focus. (View From The Top).
January 1, 2003... Editor's Note: David Witherspoon became president of Garst Seed Company in 2000. Witherspoon first began his career with Garst in July 1989 as a corn breeder/research station manager. He was promoted to field business manager in June of 1994...