- Agrimarketing veteran Janis Jones has joined the Kansas City office of AdFarm as Team Lead for the Bayer CropScience team. Jones brings 20 years of experience in strategic marketing and brand building in agriculture and crop-protection, with a background that includes marketing and strategy direction for agricultural companies such as EDEN Bioscience, Novartis, Case and DuPont. Most recently, Jones worked at Holland America Line as a product manager for European operations.
- Karen Potratz has returned to Bader Rutter & Associates, Brookfield, Wisc., as a public relations group leader on the Dow AgroSciences account. As a group leader, Potratz will oversee the agency’s public relations activities for the Dow AgroSciences crop protection, traits and seed businesses. She most recently worked at Morgan & Myers, Inc., as a senior counselor.
- Heska Corporation announced its Des Moines-based subsidiary (Heska Des Moines) has amended its bovine vaccine distribution agreement with Agri Laboratories, Ltd. Under the terms of the amended agreement, Heska Des Moines agreed to fund a portion of development spending under the remaining research and development agreement with AgriLabs in return for certain distribution rights.
- Pioneer Hi-Bred announces the release of 59 new Pioneer® brand corn hybrids, available to growers across North America for the 2008 planting season. This includes 23 new genetic families matched with technology from the Herculex® family of insect protection traits and the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 trait, offering more technology options for growers to meet individual field needs.
