Items Tagged with 'Chuck Magro'

Western Growers has appointed Rob Yraceburu, president of Wonderful Orchards at The Wonderful Company, as chair of its board of directors. In his role at Wonderful Orchards, Yraceburu oversees the world’s largest grower of pistachios and pomegranates and one of the largest growers of almonds and wine grapes. Before joining the Wonderful Company in 2015, he spent nearly three decades at Wells Fargo, where he served as a senior banker and as executive vice president and head of national food and agribusiness. During his tenure, he helped finance many of The Wonderful Company’s acquisitions, including FIJI Water and JUSTIN Vineyards. A fourth-generation raisin and almond farmer from California’s Central Valley, Yraceburu succeeds Stuart Woolf as chair and will serve a two-year term. 

Grant Leslie has been named government and policy operating partner at S2G Investments. CropLife International has appointed Corteva CEO Chuck Magro chairman of the group's board of directors. Alison Foster was promoted to manager of government affairs and operations for the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.

Corteva Agriscience’s board of directors has approved a plan to split its crop protection and seed businesses into two separate, publicly traded companies. The crop protection company will be called New Corteva. SpinCo is the new name for the seed business.

Corteva Agriscience leaders expressed optimism about the company’s financial position, and the strength of the ag economy as a whole, in a call Thursday where they reported revenue and earnings numbers that exceeded analysts’ estimates.

Corteva and Syngenta, two major seed and crop protection companies, reported lower overall sales for their third quarters but higher sales of seeds, as they look to navigate what one of their CEOs called “complicating geopolitical, macroeconomic and ag-specific factors.”

Tight global commodity supplies are helping drive a strong market for farm inputs, two major suppliers said in reporting their earnings Thursday.