Items Tagged with 'Vive Crop Protection'

Elissa McLerran Gilliam has departed from the American Frozen Foods Institute to join the National Sorghum Producers. The Institute of Food Technologists hired Eric Ellis as chief financial officer. The American Coalition for Ethanol elected members to its board of directors.  

Wendell Calhoun was named senior communications manager for Syngenta North America Crop Protection. Matthew Vann was named associate dean and director of University of Illinois Extension. Longtime soy policy advocate and Delaware state Farm Service Agency executive director Richard Wilkins hasdied. The Renewable Fuels Association hired Ashley Viglione as a government affairs associate. 

Tuesday was John Newton's last day as the chief economist for the Senate Agriculture Committee under ranking member John Boozman of Arkansas. Bob Petersen will retire from Petersen Consulting, the firm he founded in 2004. Erica Venancio, the firm’s senior executive, will assume leadership of the firm.  

After 13 years, Lisa Humphreys’ time at the United Soybean Board came to an “unexpected and abrupt halt,” she wrote in a LinkedIn post. The U.S. Grains Council has added staff and made multiple promotions: Burhan Chaudhry, Juan Diaz, Sam Clemence, Lucas Rudy and Sam Redfern.