Video & Photo Gallery
2022
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An Expanding Partnership’s Bright Future: Kyle McClelland, Brandt seed and technical agronomy manager, (right) and Wade Meteer, Syngenta sales rep, (left) have recently expanded their partnership in support of Brandt’s seed treatment business.
An Expanding Partnership’s Bright Future: These healthy soybeans pods in a field in Pleasant Plains, Illinois, were protected by Saltro® fungicide seed treatment and CruiserMaxx® Vibrance® insecticide/fungicide during the growing season.
An Expanding Partnership’s Bright Future: McClelland takes a close look at some soybean roots.
An Expanding Partnership’s Bright Future: Meteer believes that Syngenta Seedcare products helps Brandt’s growers maximize their return on investment.
Fall 2021
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Military Veterans Make Successful Transitions to Careers in Agriculture: A U.S. Army veteran, Marvin Frink has found new purpose in life working with cattle on his Briarwood Cattle Farm near Red Springs, North Carolina.
Military Veterans Make Successful Transitions to Careers in Agriculture: Frink makes sure a calf stays with its herd as the cows graze in a pasture. He calls working with cattle his “agri-therapy” because it has been an important part of his recovery from PTSD.
Military Veterans Make Successful Transitions to Careers in Agriculture: A recently born calf rests in tall grass on Frink’s farm.
Military Veterans Make Successful Transitions to Careers in Agriculture: Marvin Frink (right) and his wife Tanisha Frink (left) enjoy each other’s company.
Military Veterans Make Successful Transitions to Careers in Agriculture: The Frinks' son Devante Navarro (left) joins Tanisha and Marvin for a quiet moment during a busy day.
Military Veterans Make Successful Transitions to Careers in Agriculture: Navarro (left) and Frink (right) tend to the chickens that Frink raises on the farm.
Videos
Spring 2021
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A Season-Long Approach to Corn Rootworm Management: Grower Kyle Van Bogaert (right) and his father, Steve Van Bogaert, have successfully used a multipronged strategy to control corn rootworm on their farm in Belmont, Wisconsin.
A Season-Long Approach to Corn Rootworm Management: A key part of the Van Bogaerts’ strategy is using Force® 6.5G herbicide on their corn acreage.
A Season-Long Approach to Corn Rootworm Management: Retailer Pat Herbst (left) with Insight FS, Inc., works with the Van Bogaerts (right) on how to best control corn rootworms with Force 6.5 herbicide and other solutions.
A Season-Long Approach to Corn Rootworm Management: The Van Bogaerts get a closer look at a cornfield on their farm by checking out an aerial image that Insight generated.
A Season-Long Approach to Corn Rootworm Management: After a hard day’s work, Kyle looks forward to continuing the success of his family’s farm.
Videos
Winter 2021
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Certified AgriEdge Partners: Garrett Osvog (left) and Chad Malone (right) of Midstate Agronomy in De Smet, South Dakota, work closely with Syngenta AgriEdge Specialist Chad Malone (center) to help their customers make the right agronomic decisions.
Certified AgriEdge Partners: Midstate Agronomy provides agricultural chemicals, seeds, fertilizer and service to growers in central South Dakota.
Certified AgriEdge Partners: Osvog uses AgriEdge whole-farm management software to help determine the right mix of crop inputs for his customers. Seed selection is one of the most important variables in that mix.
Certified AgriEdge Partners: Malone uses the AgriEdge software on his mobile phone while participating in a Zoom call with Borchard.
Certified AgriEdge Partners: Borchard (right) maintains a close, but socially distanced, professional partnership with Osvog (left) and others at Midstate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
#RootedinAg Contest Winner Inspired by Her Grandmother: Hannah Borg (right), a farmer and the Syngenta 2020 #RootedinAg Contest winner, honored her grandmother Lois Borg (left) in her winning entry. Here, Hannah helps Lois prepare their noontime meal.
#RootedinAg Contest Winner Inspired by Her Grandmother: Part of Hannah’s daily chore routine is feeding her horses and cleaning stalls. Her dog, Piper, enjoys the chores, too.
#RootedinAg Contest Winner Inspired by Her Grandmother: During the busy fall harvest, Hannah feeds the cattle while her brother and dad are in the field.
#RootedinAg Contest Winner Inspired by Her Grandmother: Hannah enjoys the daily rhythm of chores with her father, Terry Borg.
#RootedinAg Contest Winner Inspired by Her Grandmother: Hannah credits her grandmother for inspiring her agricultural dreams, which include balancing a life on the farm with a career in agricultural communications — a field in which she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Conventional, Organic Agriculture Give Consumers Choice:
A tractor makes a pass through an organic lettuce field at Braga Fresh Family Farms, based in
Salinas, California.
Conventional, Organic Agriculture Give Consumers Choice: Heads of organic lettuce
soak up the sunshine at Braga Fresh Family Farms.
Conventional, Organic Agriculture Give Consumers Choice: Adrian Garcia, in-house
pest control adviser, uses beneficial insects and robotic weeding machines as part of his strategy
to control pests in organic crops.
Conventional, Organic Agriculture Give Consumers Choice: Nick Dodds, Syngenta sales
rep (left) and Adrian Garcia, in-house pest control adviser, (right) confer on the progress of this
year’s crops.
Conventional, Organic Agriculture Give Consumers Choice: Braga Fresh Family Farms
grows broccoli as part of its organic operations.
Videos
Fall 2020
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Successful Succession in Ag: Kory Hagen, a 28-year-old Iowa grower who took over his family’s farm, uses technologies that weren’t available to his father at the same age.
Successful Succession in Ag: Hagen often seeks advice from Ashley Green, commercial lead for Digital Ag Solutions at Syngenta.
Successful Succession in Ag: Hagen takes great pride in managing his expansive farming operation in Cylinder, a small northern Iowa community.
Successful Succession in Ag: From left to right: Grower Parker Heard, his Syngenta rep Bryan Baxley and his father, Glenn Heard, are working on a plan for the elder Heard to pass on the family farm in Brinson, Georgia, to his son.
Successful Succession in Ag: Baxley is committed to helping the Heards produce healthy soybeans as their farm passes from one generation to the next.
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Spring 2020
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Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: Nathan Eitzmann (left) with the Ag Retailers Association (ARA) and Clint Carlson (right) with the National Association of Wheat Growers greet each other during a session at the 2020 Syngenta Leadership At Its Best (LAIB) conference in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: Josh Wilken with the Independent Professional Seed Association (IPSA) participates in an LAIB workshop.
Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: Jeff Meints, also with IPSA, poses a question to an LAIB moderator.
Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: Kim LaFleur with the National Association of Conservation Districts looks over LAIB handouts.
Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: Brent O'Bannon (right), an LAIB moderator, takes a question from participant Jane Marshall with American Agri-Women during a StrengthsFinder exercise, designed to uncover participants' top strengths as leaders based on recurring patterns of thought, feeling and behavior.
Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: Nathan Larson with ARA participates in an exercise that will help identify his core strengths.
Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: An LAIB attendee reviews his personalized StrengthsFinder matrix, a tool he and all other participants can use as a reference to build on their leadership skills following the conference.
Workshop Trains Leaders How to Speak Up for Agriculture: Chad Vanderby (left) with the National Agricultural Aviation Association and Tim Watts (right) with ARA enjoy the camaraderie and collaboration that LAIB fosters.
Videos
Winter 2020
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Keep Fields Clean With Proactive Steps, Innovative Herbicides: Aaron Cross surveys a harvested field on his family’s farm near Lewis, Kansas, where he grows wheat, corn, soybeans and milo.
Keep Fields Clean With Proactive Steps, Innovative Herbicides: Cross is also owner of Cross Insurance Agency.
Keep Fields Clean With Proactive Steps, Innovative Herbicides: Cross and his dad, David (left), work together to keep their family farm thriving.
Keep Fields Clean With Proactive Steps, Innovative Herbicides: Ahead of the 2020 growing season, Cross maps out best weed management practices with his Syngenta rep, Danzey Nickel (right).
Keep Fields Clean With Proactive Steps, Innovative Herbicides: Grower Kyle Hawkins (left) works with his Syngenta rep Whitney Venable (right) on developing his farm’s 2020 weed management plan at his office in Bogard, Missouri.
Keep Fields Clean With Proactive Steps, Innovative Herbicides: Venable (right) shares the latest data on Acuron herbicide with Hawkins.
Keep Fields Clean With Proactive Steps, Innovative Herbicides: From left to right: Venable, Hawkins and Hawkins’ wife, Abbi, watch Avery Hawkins shuck an ear of dry corn in a harvested field. Avery is the Hawkins’ youngest child. They also have a son, Kase.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Tammy Wiedenbeck of Lancaster, Wisconsin, is the #2019 RootedinAg winner.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Tammy honored her brother, Doug, in her winning essay.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: The comradery between Doug and Tammy is evident whenever they spend time together on their seventh-generation family farm.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: In addition to her brother, Tammy credits her parents, Rhonda and Richard, for instilling her appreciation and love of agriculture.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: The Wiedenbecks raise 100 head of Angus, Red Angus and Registered Shorthorn beef cattle on their 500-acre farm.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Tammy leads Buster the cow out of the lot, so her niece and nephews can ride him.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Doug and his wife, Stacy, are committed to continuing the legacy of the Wiedenbeck farm.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Doug and Stacy’s five children are the future of farming for the Wiedenbecks. From left to right: David, Lucas, Vada, AJ and Charlie.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Tammy shares a close bond with her niece and nephews.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Doug spends quality time with his children and dog Reggie on the farm. Children from left to right: Charlie, David and Lucas.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: Rhonda also enjoys the times she spends with her grandchildren, including David, on the farm.
Sibling Harmony Results From Shared Values, Farm Duties: From left to right: Doug, Rhonda, Richard and Tammy understand that hard work combined with lots of love is the perfect recipe for success in a family farming enterprise.
Acuron Corn Herbicide Helps Growers Boost Yields: Poor weed control the previous season results in a mat of giant ragweed invading a cornfield in Clatonia, Nebraska. (Photography by Brett Burenheide)
Acuron Corn Herbicide Helps Growers Boost Yields: Thirty-seven days after a preemergence treatment of Acuron at 2.7 quarts per acre, 2,4-D and dicamba herbicides, healthy corn plants emerge in this same Nebraska field. (Photography by Brett Burenheide)
Acuron Corn Herbicide Helps Growers Boost Yields: Fifty-one days following the preemergence treatment of Acuron at 2.7 qt/A, 2,4-D and dicamba herbicides, a healthy field of corn flourishes. (Photography by Eric Groover)
Videos
Fall 2019
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Syngenta Seedcare Delivers Real-World Solutions: Gary Geske, an independent seed treater in North Dakota, chooses Syngenta Seedcare solutions because of their quality.
Syngenta Seedcare Delivers Real-World Solutions: Geske says having knowledgeable representatives, like Pat Foley, Syngenta Seedcare key account lead (pictured above), is another reason he chooses Syngenta as his seed treatment supplier.
Syngenta Seedcare Delivers Real-World Solutions: Xun He, product customization specialist, welcomes a group of resellers to The Syngenta Seedcare Institute in Stanton, Minnesota.
Syngenta Seedcare Delivers Real-World Solutions: Karen Elorduy, seed biology lab technician, shows a group of resellers the value of seed treatments on seedling vigor and root health at the Stanton facility.
Syngenta Seedcare Delivers Real-World Solutions: Joe Kuznia, a Syngenta Seedcare platform lead, spearheads a training session on customizing treatment recipes for different crops.
Syngenta Seedcare Delivers Real-World Solutions: Also in Stanton, John Wells, Seedcare application specialist, demonstrates storage and handling of treated seeds in a climate-controlled testing lab.
Syngenta Seedcare Delivers Real-World Solutions: Wanderson Oliveira, a Syngenta Seedcare platform specialist, sets up seed treatment equipment during product training at the Stanton facility.
Videos
Summer 2019
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Seed Selection Matters: Bruce Battles, seeds agronomy technical manager at Syngenta, takes a break from his work at the company’s Slater, Iowa, seed research facility.
Seed Selection Matters: Corn grown from Syngenta inbred lines flourishes in a greenhouse at the Slater research facility.
Seed Selection Matters: Ears from winter nursery, which have been dried, shelled and sized in preparation for planting in 2019 yield trials, arrive in early spring at Slater for processing.
Seed Selection Matters: Cleaned seed is treated with a seed treatment to protect against insects and soilborne pathogens.
Seed Selection Matters: Seeds are counted out kernel by kernel and packaged into individual planting packets used in specialized research planters.
Seed Selection Matters: Hybrids are verified for correct packeting and assigned an individual plot number.
Seed Selection Matters: Packets from multiple hybrids in each trial are sorted into planting order just before taking them to the planter.
NK Seeds: A Legacy of Innovation: Matt Dolch (left), Syngenta district manager for the western Corn Belt and NK retail channel, and Mike Egger (right), master seed advisor at Central Valley Ag Cooperative in Nebraska, work together to help growers produce more profitable crops through the use of tools like NK® corn hybrids.
NK Seeds: A Legacy of Innovation: Egger says the research and the people behind the NK brand give him a competitive advantage over other retailers in his area.
NK Seeds: A Legacy of Innovation: Dolch checks the growth stage and progress of a new release, Stage 6 NK brand corn hybrid.
NK Seeds: A Legacy of Innovation: As part of his hands-on service with retailer partner Central Valley, Dolch (right) consults with Nebraska grower Tom Vodicka (left) in the cab of a tractor during planting season.
Enogen Delivers Efficient Nourishment for Cattle: Wally Eachus (left) and his son Eric Eachus (right) proudly hold healthy calves born and raised on their dairy operation, Wellacrest Farms, near Mullica Hill, New Jersey.
Enogen Delivers Efficient Nourishment for Cattle: Wally Eachus has dedicated his life to building on the farm’s 75-year history of success.
Enogen Delivers Efficient Nourishment for Cattle: Eric Eachus, who represents his family’s fourth generation of Wellacrest Farms owners, works side by side with his dad to keep the operation at the top of the Garden State’s largest dairy farms.
Enogen Delivers Efficient Nourishment for Cattle: Eric Eachus (left) relies on advice from his Enogen Feed account lead, Brent Sutton (right), on Enogen® Feed corn, which has helped boost his profitability since 2018.
Enogen Delivers Efficient Nourishment for Cattle: The higher levels of sugar and starch availability in Enogen Feed corn provide more available energy, which translates into greater feed efficiency for the Wellacrest Farms cattle that ingest it.
Enogen Delivers Efficient Nourishment for Cattle: From left to right: Syngenta intern Sam Gollmer, Wally Eachus, Brent Sutton and Eric Eachus inspect the healthy roots of an Enogen Feed corn hybrid growing on the farm.
Enogen Delivers Efficient Nourishment for Cattle: Sutton takes pride in helping dairy farmers in his area, like the Eachuses, receive the greatest return possible on their seed investment.
Videos
Spring 2019
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Industry Fights Against Citrus Greening: Zach Langford (left) with Syngenta and James Shinn (right), owner of Tree-O Groves, discuss pest-management best practices, while walking in one of Shinn’s Polk City, Florida, citrus groves.
Industry Fights Against Citrus Greening: Shinn, whose family has grown citrus for four generations, stands in front of hay bales on his farm.
Industry Fights Against Citrus Greening: Langford visits Shinn’s groves frequently to provide insight on Syngenta crop solutions.
Industry Fights Against Citrus Greening: Shinn inspects an orange for any telltale signs of citrus greening, a disease that has devastated the Florida citrus industry.
Industry Fights Against Citrus Greening: Insecticide applications that help control the primary vector of the disease, the Asian citrus psyllid, are an essential part of good grove management.
Industry Fights Against Citrus Greening: To help diversify his operation, Shinn also grows peaches.
Industry Fights Against Citrus Greening: Growing and harvesting quality fruit is Shinn’s ultimate goal.
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Winter 2019
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Katharine Girone 2018 #RootedinAg Winner: Katharine Girone, the 2018 #RootedinAg Contest winner, holds a chicken on her family’s farm in Varna, Illinois.
Katharine Girone 2018 #RootedinAg Winner: Kenneth McKee, Girone’s grandfather, is the person who most inspired her agricultural roots.
Katharine Girone 2018 #RootedinAg Winner: Feeding the livestock is still a chore McKee enjoys.
Katharine Girone 2018 #RootedinAg Winner: Girone, a 4-H program coordinator at the University of Illinois Extension in Pekin, visits the family farm to help her grandfather whenever she can.
Katharine Girone 2018 #RootedinAg Winner: The farm’s sheep always welcome Girone’s visits.
Katharine Girone 2018 #RootedinAg Winner: Girone, with one her favorite horses, will always be a farm girl at heart.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: Colten Katz with Turon Mill & Elevator, Inc., in Turon, Kansas, stands in his father’s no-till cornfield following the 2018 harvest.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: Jim Katz, Colten’s father, stands in the same cornfield on his farm in Lewis, Kansas.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: Danzey Nickel with Syngenta visits the Katz farm to help map out the father and son’s weed-management strategy for 2019.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: From left to right: Nickel, Colten Katz and Jim Katz understand that a key step in developing the right weed-management strategy is looking at the numbers from the previous season.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: Colten Katz checks out the Syngenta website for additional herbicide information.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: Harvesting healthy ears of corn at the end of the season is the ultimate goal.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: Colten Katz (left) and Jim Katz (right) inspect an ear of corn postharvest.
Get Ahead of Weed Resistance: From left to right: Following a successful harvest, Jim Katz, Nickel and Colten Katz take time to enjoy the partnership they have developed.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: At the Syngenta wheat quality lab in Berthoud, Colorado, Quality Technician Brigette Maestas conducts a test.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: The Syngenta wheat quality lab is home to three laboratory mills, which use rollers to grind wheat samples.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: Grain samples are milled to evaluate wheat milling properties, including flour extraction and nonflour by-products, such as bran.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: Flour, water, shortening, sugar, salt, dry yeast and a dough conditioner are mixed together to create the dough for a pup loaf.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: Assistant Plant Scientist Joy Battistone forms bread dough into a loaf.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: Pup loaves are placed in a fermentation cabinet prior to baking.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: Baked loaves from the U.S. bread process are evaluated for their break and shred, which is the way the bread rises above the pan.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: The crumb characteristics of the bread are evaluated on color, texture, and grain or cell structure.
Syngenta Is Committed to Developing High-Quality Wheat Varieties: Baked sugar snap cookies are evaluated by measuring the diameter and assessing the top grain.
Videos
Fall 2018
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Syngenta Has a Winning Roster of Fungicides: Grower Mark Forsyth of Charles City, Iowa, sprays his soybeans with Trivapro fungicide to effectively manage diseases. He also uses Trivapro on his corn acreage.
Syngenta Has a Winning Roster of Fungicides: Retailer William "Bill" Ruzicka (left) and Forsyth (right) inspect ears of corn prior to harvest.
Syngenta Has a Winning Roster of Fungicides: Forsyth has documented a yield bump of 10-to-15 bushels per acre after using Trivapro on his corn acreage.
Syngenta Has a Winning Roster of Fungicides: Jim Campbell with Syngenta (left) and Forsyth (right) can't find any signs of disease on this healthy leaf of corn.
Syngenta Has a Winning Roster of Fungicides: From left to right: Ruzicka, Campbell and Forsyth work as a team to help maximize the productivity of Campbell's farm, including this soybean field.
Syngenta Has a Winning Roster of Fungicides: From left to right: Campbell, Ruzicka and Forsyth are all true believers in the plant health benefits that Trivapro offers.
Syngenta Has a Winning Roster of Fungicides: For Forsyth, the ultimate goal of using Trivapro or Miravis Neo on his corn is harvesting healthy ears like this one at the end of the season.
Syngenta Seedcare Institute Focuses on Quality and Support: Ravi Ramachandran, Ph.D., head of the North America Seedcare Institute (SCI) in Stanton, Minnesota, conducts a compatibility test of soybean treatment recipe components.
Syngenta Seedcare Institute Focuses on Quality and Support: Ramachandran reviews the equipment parameters on the Cimbria Heid treater in preparation for a large-scale seed treatment application experiment.
Syngenta Seedcare Institute Focuses on Quality and Support: Treated soybean seed at SCI feature customized colors representing customer brands.
Syngenta Seedcare Institute Focuses on Quality and Support: These containers show the rainbow of colors SCI experts can custom blend.
Syngenta Seedcare Institute Focuses on Quality and Support: Wanderson Oliveira, Seedcare platform specialist at SCI, shows the below-ground benefits of using seed treatments. The container to the left shows healthy root growth from treated seed, while the container to the right shows stunted root growth from untreated seed.
Iowa 250 Presented by Enogen: Syngenta has sponsored the Iowa 250 presented by Enogen since 2011.
Iowa 250 Presented by Enogen: The NASCAR Xfinity Series race supports the renewable fuels industry, particularly corn-based ethanol.
Iowa 250 Presented by Enogen: Race winner Justin Allgaier speaks to the media following his victory.
Iowa 250 Presented by Enogen: Allgier, like the fan whose hat he's signing, celebrates his win with Syngenta representatives attending the race.
Iowa 250 Presented by Enogen: Allgier and his family and crew make their second trip to victory lane during the 2018 racing season.
Syngenta Celebrates Pollinator Stewards: Monarch butterflies feed on wildflower nectar at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas.
Syngenta Celebrates Pollinator Stewards: Bumblebees forage at the Pollinator Prairie in Olathe, Kansas. a former Superfund site that was converted to a pollinator habitat.
Syngenta Celebrates Pollinator Stewards: The Syngenta commitment to pollinator stewardship is evident both inside and outside the Syngenta Seedcare Institute in Stanton, Minnesota.
Summer 2018
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Enogen Energizes: Corn and beef cattle producer Duane Kimball (left) from Callaway, Nebraska, discusses the benefits of using Enogen corn hybrids with Easton Eggers (right), a grower account lead at Syngenta.
Enogen Energizes: Kimball loads Enogen corn into his planter during the 2018 planting season.
Enogen Energizes: Enogen Feed corn provides Kimball’s beef cattle with an efficient nutrition source.
Enogen Energizes: Enogen grain pours into a grain cart on Kimball’s farm.
Enogen Energizes: A payloader fills a mixing wagon with Enogen grain on Kimball’s farm.
Seed Program in Puerto Rico: A Food Bank of Puerto Rico volunteer packs cans of food in supply boxes that will help Puerto Ricans in need following Hurricane Maria in 2017.
Seed Program in Puerto Rico: A group of Syngenta and Food Bank of Puerto Rico volunteers in San Juan, Puerto Rico, take a break from packing supplies for local hurricane victims.
Seed Program in Puerto Rico: Two volunteers load supply boxes onto trucks for delivery to residents in Salinas, Puerto Rico.
Seed Program in Puerto Rico: Boxes of food supplies from Syngenta are ready to be delivered to a beach area in Salinas, Puerto Rico.
Seed Program in Puerto Rico: From left to right: Ivonne Bernard with the Food Bank of Puerto Rico, a seasonal Syngenta employee and Liliana Sánchez Cortés with Syngenta hand deliver supplies to a local resident in Las Mareas in Salinas.
Seed Program in Puerto Rico: Mayor of Salinas Karilyn Bonilla (far right) and her secretary (second from right) welcome Cortés (far left) and Bernard (second from left) when they arrive in Las Mareas, Salinas, to help local residents.
Seed Program in Puerto Rico: Maria “Mayita” Melendez, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, speaks with the media during post-hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico.
Spring 2018
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Solatenol Fungicide: Left to right: Syngenta AgriEdge Specialist Max DeMott, Georgia peanut grower Clay Sellers and Syngenta Sales Rep Brent Harbour make sure Sellers has the right crop inputs lined up for the 2018 growing season.
Solatenol Fungicide: Harbour (left) holds a bag of Elatus fungicide and discusses its value in controlling white mold with Sellers (right).
Solatenol Fungicide: Left to right: Ricky Sloan with Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC, Harbour, DeMott and Sellers work together to help Sellers produce healthy peanuts on his farm in Hartsfield, Georgia.
Solatenol Fungicide: Sellers uses his laptop to access information online and maintain records to document his farm purchases.
Solatenol Fungicide: A cornfield on Bryan Gover’s farm in Stanford, Kentucky, awaits new spring plantings that will replace the stubble and stalks from 2017.
Solatenol Fungicide: Gover (left) and Matthew Wells (right), his Syngenta rep, check out an ear of corn left over from the 2017 season.
Solatenol Fungicide: Gover relies on Trivapro fungicide to help keep his cornfields healthy.
Grow More Experience Site: Syngenta employees examine potato leaves for signs of disease pressure during an Elatus fungicide demonstration at the Center, Colorado, Grow More Experience site.
Grow More Experience Site: Event hosts discuss NK corn technology at the Velva, North Dakota, Grow More Experience site.
Grow More Experience Site: Grow More Experience site visitors view soybean plots in Kinston, North Carolina.
Grow More Experience Site: Golden Harvest agronomist Mark Miller identifies rust on a corn leaf at the Slater, Iowa, Grow More Experience site.
Grow More Experience Site: Visitors tour grape research trials at the Hickman, California, Grow More Experience site.
Winter 2018
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Sanders Brothers: Ed (left) and Charlie (right) Sanders, growers and co-owners of Sanders Farm Service LLC in Charlestown, Indiana, agree that investing in top-quality inputs results in better yields and bigger profits.
Sanders Brothers: This healthy ear of corn from the Sanders brothers’ farm is proof positive that their approach to crop production works.
Sanders Brothers: Charlie (center) and Ed (right) work closely with their Syngenta rep Aaron Smith (left) to come up with the best weed-management strategies for their acreage and their customers’ farms.
Sanders Brothers: The Sanders brothers use the latest technologies, including drones, to monitor crop conditions throughout the growing season.
Seedcare Institute Training: Syngenta Seedcare Specialist Clay Koenig reviews a recipe preparation sheet for CruiserMaxx Vibrance Beans seed treatment at the Seedcare Institute in Stanton, Minnesota.
Seedcare Institute Training: Seedcare Platform Specialist Wanderson Oliveira demonstrates a planter-performance test during customer training at the Seedcare Institute.
Seedcare Institute Training: Using plants grown in rhizotrons, Augustine Beeman (left), Seedcare technology lead, demonstrates the vigor effect of seeds treated with Cruiser seed treatment during a customer-training session in Stanton.
Seedcare Institute Training: Participants evaluate a treatment recipe during application training at the Seedcare Institute.
Seedcare Institute Training: Hands-on training at the Seedcare Institute involves learning about recipe customization, including evaluation of new adjacent technologies like polymers and seed-shine powders.
Citrus Scouting Internship: Four former Citrus Scouting Internship Program participants inspect a grove in Labelle, Florida. (left to right) Cody Hoffman, CPS sales rep; Matt Yeomans, harvesting supervisor at A. Duda and Sons, Inc.; and Syngenta sales reps Morgan McKenna and Zach Langford.
Citrus Scouting Internship: Hoffman still uses the skills he learned as an intern to collect soil sample in groves.
Citrus Scouting Internship: Yeomans also remembers the soil-sampling techniques that he learned as an intern.
Citrus Scouting Internship: McKenna is thankful orange groves are still the backdrop for much of the work she does as a full-time Syngenta employee.
Citrus Scouting Internship: As the person now in charge of the Syngenta Citrus Scouting Internship Program, Langford understands the importance of recording data on the electronic tablets that Syngenta provides to the interns.
Citrus Scouting Internship: McKenna demonstrates how to properly inspect fruit, a skill the interns acquire each year.
Citrus Scouting Internship: The citrus greening epidemic has made the demand for the soil samples that the Syngenta interns collect throughout Florida increase dramatically.
Citrus Scouting Internship: Langford collects a soil sample in a Labelle, Florida, grove.
Tori Streitmatter 2017 #RootedinAg Winner: Tori Streitmatter (left), the 2017 #RootedinAg contest winner, credits her dad Dave (right) with helping to firmly establish her agricultural roots. They pose for a photo on their farm in Sparland, Illinois, with Clutch the dog.
Tori Streitmatter 2017 #RootedinAg Winner: In addition to corn and soybeans, the sixth-generation Streitmatter farm also produces beef cattle.
Tori Streitmatter 2017 #RootedinAg Winner: Since she was a child, Tori (left) has spent special time on her family’s farm with her dad Dave (right) and twin sister Taylor (center).
Tori Streitmatter 2017 #RootedinAg Winner: Today, Tori (center) still spends special time with her dad Dave (right) and her sister Taylor (left) on the Streitmatter farm.
Tori Streitmatter 2017 #RootedinAg Winner: Tori (right) and her twin sister Taylor (left) share a love of family and agriculture.
Tori Streitmatter 2017 #RootedinAg Winner: Dave has instilled a deep appreciation of agriculture in all three of his children.
Tori Streitmatter 2017 #RootedinAg Winner: Tori, who works at GROWMARK, Inc., in human resources, carries on her father’s farming legacy by helping a new generation succeed in the ag industry.
Fall 2017
Photo Gallery
Seed Treatments: Helena Chemical in Elaine, Arkansas, invested in this new state-of-the-art seed treater to make sure its customers get the highest quality seed possible.
Seed Treatments: Michael Butler (left) with Helena and Anthony Crocker (right) with Syngenta use the treater's PC-based automation to monitor its performance.
Seed Treatments: Helena makes sure the proper dose of seed treatment is delivered on eery seed it sells growers.
Seed Treatments: Crocker (left) and Jeremy Jones (right) with Helena confirm that the accuracy of the seed treatment meets Helena's high standards.
Seed Treatments: Growers hope that the end result of a seed properly treated is high-yielding crops, such as this four-pod soybean.
Data Can Boost Efficiency: Growers who participate in Syngenta Sustainable Solutions programs, like Wayne Goebel of Mankato, Minnesota, are enrolled in AgriEdge Excelsior. This gives them access to Land.db software, which helps Goebel and his daughter, Erin Goebel with Central Farm Service (CFS), keep track of inputs used on the farm.
Data Can Boost Efficiency: Trent Murdock with Ag Connections, a wholly owned subsidiary of Syngenta, reviews data pulled from Land.db to gauge the efficiency of nitrogen use on Goebel’s farm.
Data Can Boost Efficiency: Data captured in Land.db is displayed clearly and simply from a laptop screen.
Data Can Boost Efficiency: Land.db also offers software for smartphones and other mobile devices.
Data Can Boost Efficiency: Murdock and Ashley Green, who is a Syngenta AgriEdge Excelsior specialist, enjoy collaborating with each other to help local growers farm more sustainably.
Data Can Boost Efficiency: In her role as a precision agriculture specialist with Central Advantage, the precision agriculture platform at CFS, Erin Goebel is able to help growers like her father make more financially and sustainably sound input decisions.
Summer 2017
Photo Gallery
Seed Trait Technology: Dirk Benson (left), head of seed product development and product selection, and Eric Boudreau, head of trait projects for corn, stand in front of the Advanced Crop Lab, the cornerstone of the Syngenta Innovation Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, where they both work.
Seed Trait Technology: Crop Laboratory Assistant Colin Patrick Keenan inspects corn plants at the Advanced Crop Lab.
Seed Trait Technology: A corn plant growing in a container at the Advanced Crop Lab gives Syngenta scientists a clear view of its partially exposed root system.
Seed Trait Technology: Corn is one of the many crops that Syngenta scientists at the Advanced Crop Lab study year-round.
Seed Trait Technology: Adjustable interior lighting at the Advanced Crop Lab is one way Syngenta researchers can control environmental conditions inside the greenhouses.
Farmer Breaks Yield Ceiling: Young corn flourishes on the Delavan, Minnesota, farm of Gary Prescher, Golden Harvest agronomist and farmer.
Farmer Breaks Yield Ceiling: Gary Prescher proudly grows Golden Harvest Corn on his farm.
Farmer Breaks Yield Ceiling: Prescher (left) consults with Golden Harvest independent Seed Advisors Angela Gurntzel and Andy Cramblit on his farm.
Farmer Breaks Yield Ceiling: Cramblit (left) and Prescher (right) fly a drone in a field of young corn.
Farmer Breaks Yield Ceiling: A Golden Harvest Corn hybrid helped Prescher become a 2016 Minnesota yield champion.
NK Seeds: Tom Franke sprays young soybeans to help establish a healthy stand.
NK Seeds: Ian Franke operates his family’s multi-row planter.
NK Seeds: Tom Franke checks out field conditions during the planting season.
NK Seeds: Grower Tom Franke (left) and his brother Mike (right) work with NK Seeds Sales Representative Nicole McConnell to make sure they plant the best NK Corn hybrids and NK Soybean varieties on their farm in Hayfield, Minnesota.
NK Seeds: The next generation of Franke growers, Mike’s son Ian (left) and Tom’s son Joe (right), are already contributing to the family farm’s success.
NK Seeds: Mike Franke tests the planter’s seed meter.
NK Seeds: Tom Franke (left) inspects the planting depth of a field as his brother
Mike (right) looks on.
Spring 2017
Photo Gallery
Growers Power Up With Potent Fungicide: James relaxes on his farm in Dayton, Washington.
Growers Power Up With Potent Fungicide: Randy James prepares his chisel for use in the field by replacing its worn shoes.
Growers Power Up With Potent Fungicide: Retailer Ryan Larson (left) and Nicole McConnell (right), his Syngenta rep, confer at the Central Farm Service (CFS) facility in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota.
Growers Power Up With Potent Fungicide: McConnell (left) and Larson (right) review data on his clipboard.
The Farming Journey: People who visited the Syngenta booth at the National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) saw different varieties of corn featured in a display that Doug Kirkbride with Syngenta assembled.
The Farming Journey: Another display that Kirkbride created showcased corn roots.
The Farming Journey: The Syngenta booth also featured root systems of live corn plants.
The Farming Journey: In addition to corn, these vegetables were part of the booth.
The Farming Journey: A live display illustrated the value of Syngenta seed treatments.
The Farming Journey: Syngenta booth visitors received tokens with colors representing each station they visited.
The Farming Journey: Alex Russell (left) and Kelsey Vance (right) took time out of their busy schedules to snap a quick selfie at NFMS.
The Farming Journey: John Reynolds from Bowling Green, Ohio, checked out an interactive soil display at the Syngenta NFMS booth.
The Farming Journey: Kirkbride stands beside the corn root display that he constructed.
No-Till Innovator Awards: In the category of "Crop Production," grower Steve Berger (right) receives a plaque from Derrick LeBeau with Syngenta at the 2016 No-Till Innovator Awards.
No-Till Innovator Awards:LeBeau (left) honors David Franzen, Ph.D., from North Dakota State University with the 2016 No-Till Innovator Award for Research and Education.
No-Till Innovator Awards: LeBeau (left) presents the 2016 No-Till Innovator Award for Business and Service to Betsy Bower with Ceres Solutions, LLP.
No-Till Innovator Awards: LeBeau (left) also presents a winning plaque to representatives of Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition, which finished first in the "Organization" category.
Winter 2017
Photo Gallery
Millennial Growers: Millennial grower Rob DeFauw pauses for a moment during a busy day at the K Ranch Farm in Geneseo, Illinois.
Millennial Growers: Syngenta rep Trent Rowland takes a call on his cellphone while standing next to a pallet of Syngenta products at CPS Crop Production Services in Sterling, Illinois.
Millennial Growers: Left to right: Grower Rob DeFauw and Syngenta rep Trent Rowland survey the progress of the harvest at the K Ranch Farm.
Millennial Growers: Grower Rob DeFauw fills a grain wagon with corn so that he can transport it to the grain elevator.
Seedcare Institute: This demonstration at the Seedcare Institute in Stanton, Minnesota,
shows the value of seed treatments using rhizotrons. The wheat on the
left is grown from untreated seeds; the wheat on the right is grown from
seeds treated with CruiserMaxx Vibrance Cereals seed treatment
insecticide/fungicide.
Seedcare Institute:
A Syngenta Seedcare formulation has many components as illustrated in
this image: The jar in the forefront contains CruiserMaxx Vibrance,
while the remaining jars contain other active and inert ingredients.
Seedcare Institute: A supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) computer system helps
control all operations at the new Seedcare Institute.
Seedcare Institute: Joe Kuznia, Seedcare platform specialist, is evaluating product
viscosity using a viscometer.
Seedcare Institute: Christophe Lupfer, Seedcare application lead, evaluates dust-off from
treated seeds in the quality assurance lab.
Seedcare Institute: The team at the Syngenta Seedcare Institute in Stanton—including Kuznia
(left), a 21-year Syngenta veteran, and Seedcare Platform Specialist
Wanderson Oliveira (right), who joined Syngenta in 2016—represent
multiple generations, cultures and experiences.
#RootedinAg Winner:
Shelby Watson Hampton’s family includes (back row, from left) Trent Watson, Rusty Watson, Bob White, Wade Hampton; (middle row, from left) Rosa Suarez, Beth Watson, Susan Watson White, Shirley Watson, Shelby Watson Hampton, Sydney Hardy, Connie Watson Garner; (seated on crates, from left) Lynn Watson, Robert Watson; (seated on grass, from left) Patsy Suarez, Gio Suarez, Wendy Suarez.
#RootedinAg Winner:
From left to right: Susan Watson White and Bob White proudly show off
the wines produced on the family farm
while standing in the wine cellar,
a room in one of the barns that was once a stripping room for preparing
tobacco for market.
#RootedinAg Winner:
Shelby Watson Hampton prepares for the evening feeding as Pumpkin, the
horse, and Bubba, the goat, look on.
#RootedinAg Winner: Bubba, the goat, checks out Shelby Watson Hampton’s new tablet from
Syngenta, which she won in the #RootedinAg contest.
#RootedinAg Winner: Shelby Watson Hampton and Wade Hampton walk through the farm’s vineyard
along the same path they walked on their wedding day in 2014.
#RootedinAg Winner:
From left to right: Shelby Watson Hampton and Susan Watson work together
in the vineyard.
#RootedinAg Winner:
From left to right: Trent Watson, Shelby Watson Hampton, Beth Watson and Rusty Watson enjoy some time together on their family farm.
#RootedinAg Winner:
Shirley Watson (center on bench) is surrounded by her four children
(from left) Susan Watson White, Rusty Watson, Robert Watson and Connie
Watson Garner.
Trade With Cuba: The Agrarian University of Havana offers a wide selection of degrees
including veterinary medicine, ag engineering, agronomy and education.
Trade With Cuba: The Agro Mercado 19yB in Havana is a bustling market with fresh fruit,
vegetables, meat and flowers.
Trade With Cuba: Old car enthusiasts will enjoy seeing and riding in the restored 1950s
cars that dominate the taxi business in Cuba.
Trade With Cuba: A sunrise presents a flattering view of Havana’s crumbling sugar
mansions and new construction along the city's Malecon roadway and seawall.
Trade With Cuba: In a business section of downtown Havana, workers and tourists take
advantage of the rare internet and cellphone signals.
Trade With Cuba: Cuba’s Ministry of Agriculture, housed in Havana, is one of the country’s
largest employers with 1 million Cubans on its payroll.
Fall 2016
Photo Gallery
The Story Behind FarmHer: Meet Michelle Jones, a RanchHer and FarmHer from Broadview, Montana. Photography by Marji Guyler-Alaniz.
The Story Behind FarmHer: Meet Kaytlin O’Dell, a FarmHer from California. Photography by Marji Guyler-Alaniz.
The Story Behind FarmHer: Meet Landi Livingston, a fourth-generation FarmHer operating Hoover Angus Farm in Iowa. Photography by Marji Guyler-Alaniz.
The Story Behind FarmHer: Meet Brittany Kreibel, a student FarmHer working on her family’s farm in Oklahoma. Photography by Marji Guyler-Alaniz.
The Story Behind FarmHer: Meet Angelique Hakuzimana, a FarmHer working at Wabi Sabi Farm in Granger, Iowa. Photography by Marji Guyler-Alaniz.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: Illinois grower Courtney Hampton (left) enjoys spending time with her mentor and grandmother-in-law, Sonna Hoke, who is also a grower.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: Upon retirement, Hoke and her husband, Ed, (couple to the left) plan on passing on their farm to Hampton and her husband, Andrew (couple to the right).
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: Golden Harvest Seed Advisor Nicole Forsberg visits the Hoke’s farm in Clinton, Illinois.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: Hoke, who has worked side by side with her husband for more than 50 years, operates a tractor on their farm.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: From left to right: Hampton, Hoke and Forsberg work together to produce a bountiful harvest.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: From left to right: Daniel Olson with Helena Chemical Company, grower Charles Schlabs and Connie Banks with Syngenta discuss the 2016 season in Schlabs’ cornfield near Hereford, Texas.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: A cotton plant blossoms near Hereford, Texas.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: Corn grows tall in Schlabs’ field.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: Banks inspects an ear of corn in Schlabs’ field.
No Boundaries for Women in Agriculture: Banks and Schlab take a break from the busy workday.
Summer 2016
Photo Gallery
Photo Contest Winner Shares Her Family's Story: From left to right: Rodger Slings, Ceil Slings, Cristen Clark, Barrett Clark, Mike Clark, Tanna Weyers, Halle Clark (sitting on fence), Kemper Weyers (on ground), Kendyl Weyers (in arms of Tanna) and Drew Weyers enjoy being together on their family farm in Runnels, Iowa.
Photo Contest Winner Shares Her Family's Story: From left to right: Cristen Clark; her 4-year-old son, Barrett; and her dad, Rodger Slings, walk between rows of corn on their farm.
Photo Contest Winner Shares Her Family's Story: From left to right: Cristen, Barrett and Rodger pose for a generational photo.
Photo Contest Winner Shares Her Family's Story: Barrett proudly wears the belt buckle Cristen won as a member of the Equestrian Club at Drake University.
Photo Contest Winner Shares Her Family's Story: Morning chores for Cristen include feeding the farm’s show and production pigs.
Photo Contest Winner Shares Her Family's Story: From left to right: Barrett, Cristen and Rodger share a happy moment.
Seeds Are Key to a Successful Season: Syngenta sales representative Brian Langeland (center) enumerates the advantages of Syngenta genetics and traits, while Minnesota grower Cletus Hillesheim (left) and Syngenta Seed Advisor Ralph Pabst listen.
Seeds Are Key to a Successful Season: From left to right: Grower Kevin Brown, Langeland and Pabst pose for a photo while standing in a field of early-season corn near Sanborn, Minnesota.
Seeds Are Key to a Successful Season: Brown and Langeland inspect a young corn plant.
Seeds Are Key to a Successful Season: Young corn thrives in Sanborn, Minnesota.
Seeds Are Key to a Successful Season: The strong partnership between Langeland (left) and Pabst benefits their grower customers.
From Monroe City, Missouri: From left to right: Brenna Ruth and Adam Grove with Farmers Elevator and Exchange in Monroe City, Missouri, and Brad Koch, AgriEdge specialist with Syngenta, observe data that Land.db farm management software is generating.
From Monroe City, Missouri: From left to right: Brad Koch and Adam Keen with Syngenta, grower Todd Hayes, and Adam Grove and Gary Carr with Farmers Elevator and Exchange discuss the benefits of the AgriEdge Excelsior program in a Missouri cornfield.
From Monroe City, Missouri: Adam Grove (left) and Brad Koch easily access Land.db remotely in a grower’s field. Previous
From Monroe City, Missouri: Gary Carr (left) and Brad Koch check on a young corn plant’s roots.
From Monroe City, Missouri: Farmers Elevator and Exchange, a locally owned co-op feed and agronomy company in Monroe City, Missouri, has a long history of agricultural excellence.
Weakley County, Tennessee: From left to right: Chuck Burlison with Helena Chemical Company and Cory Gilbert with Syngenta visit grower David Coates of Weakley County, Tennessee, in one of Coates’ cornfields.
Weakley County, Tennessee: David Coates enjoys a cup of coffee as he watches over his corn crop.
Weakley County, Tennessee: Chuck Burlison (right) speaks with David Coates’ oldest son, Logan, on Coates Farm, a 2,500-acre operation where the family grows corn, soybeans and wheat.
Weakley County, Tennessee: From left to right: Landon Coates, David Coates, Cory Gilbert, Logan Coates and Chuck Burlison check on a field of irrigated corn.
Weakley County, Tennessee: From left to right: For Pam, Landon, David, Beth Ann and Logan Coates, farming is a family affair.
Weakley County, Tennessee: From left to right: Cory Gilbert, Chuck Burlison, and David, Logan and Landon Coates work together to maximize the value of Land.db farm management software on the Coates’ family farm.
Spring 2016
Photo Gallery
Demonstration Sites Share New Technologies: Attendees at the 2015
Grow More Experience site in Gilroy, California, got an early look at the benefits
of a Syngenta pipeline insecticide on onions.
Demonstration Sites Share New Technologies: Syngenta insecticides
helped leafy vegetables, like this spinach, grow strong at the site.
Demonstration Sites Share New Technologies: Attendees at the event
also were able to learn how Operation Pollinator can benefit their vegetable programs.
Demonstration Sites Share New Technologies: Vegetable variety trials,
running in tandem with the event, showcased multiple innovative sweet corn varieties.
Demonstration Sites Share New Technologies: Attendees had the chance
to taste and compare several varieties of sweet peas and green beans.
Demonstration Sites Share New Technologies: The benefits of Aprovia
Top on vegetables were on display.
Scholarship Winners Embrace Ag's Future: Erin Koglin (left) and
Brian Devine (right) with Syngenta join Logan Crumbaugh (center) at a ceremony recognizing Crumbaugh
as this year’s undergraduate Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship winner.
Scholarship Winners Embrace Ag's Future: Syngenta Agricultural
Scholarship winner Logan Crumbaugh examines young plants in a greenhouse at Michigan
State University.
Scholarship Winners Embrace Ag's Future: Erin Koglin (left) and
Brian Devine (right) with Syngenta join Mitch Roth (center) at a ceremony recognizing Roth as this
year’s graduate Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship winner.
Scholarship Winners Embrace Ag's Future: Syngenta Agricultural
Scholarship winner Mitch Roth makes observations in a greenhouse at Michigan State
University.
Scholarship Winners Embrace Ag's Future: Logan Crumbaugh (left)
and Mitch Roth stand between trays filled with young plants in a Michigan State
University greenhouse.
Krista Lottinville: Motivator for Young Women in Ag: Kyle Lottinville
congratulates his daughter, Krista, for being the 2015 Drive to Thrive winner.
Krista Lottinville: Motivator for Young Women in Ag: (From left
to right): Penny Lauritzen, Illinois Agricultural Resource Council (IARC) board
member; Diana Ropp, IARC board president; Susan Wall, president of Illinois Agri-Women;
Lottinville; and Kelsey Vance, Syngenta sales representative.
Krista Lottinville: Motivator for Young Women in Ag: Krista Lottinville
uses the mini touch-screen tablet she won for being one of 10 Drive to Thrive finalists.
Krista Lottinville: Motivator for Young Women in Ag: Krista Lottinville
operates equipment on her family’s farm in Sheldon, Illinois.
Krista Lottinville: Motivator for Young Women in Ag: Krista Lottinville
and her family dog, Maggie, enjoy an autumn day on the farm.
Krista Lottinville: Motivator for Young Women in Ag: A cornfield
on the Lottinville farm is the backdrop for a family photo. From left to right:
Krista Lottinville; her mom, Sue; and her dad, Kyle.
Winter 2016
Photo Gallery
Take Control of Weeds in Corn: Ohio grower Nathan Miller shares
his weed management philosophy.
Take Control of Weeds in Corn: Miller harvests corn on his farm
in Washington Court House, Ohio.
Take Control of Weeds in Corn: (Left to right): Mike Erwin of KOVA
of Ohio, Miller and Greg Whitesell of Syngenta join forces to battle tough weeds
on Miller’s farm.
Take Control of Weeds in Corn: Two ears of harvested corn reflect
the success of Miller’s 2015 season.
Take Control of Weeds in Corn: Dusk marks the end of a busy day
on Miller’s farm.
Take Control of Weeds in Corn: Weed-free rows of corn at harvest
are telltale signs that Acuron® herbicide works.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: FFA members took advantage of
the opportunity to learn more about the ag industry at the 2015 National FFA Convention
& Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: An FFA student from Ohio writes
what inspires her about agriculture on a rain barrel that was later donated to an
FFA chapter.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: Susan Henshall with Syngenta
encourages students to sign up to play minigolf.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: The Syngenta booth was packed
from show open to close each day. Minigolf was a big hit, with six holes representing
the six commitments of The Good Growth Plan.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: Michael Boden with Syngenta
interacts with a student.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: FFA students gather at a banquet.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: Jill Wheeler with Syngenta speaks
at the Agri-Science Fair about The Good Growth Plan.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: An FFA student from Oklahoma
takes a picture of his name on the leaderboard.
Tomorrow's Leaders in Agriculture: An excited FFA student plays
minigolf at the Syngenta booth.
Fall 2015
Photo Gallery
Double Duty: (from left to right) Syngenta Seed Advisor Jake Hoalt,
grower Brad Weger and Kurtis Goebel with Syngenta work together to find the best
management solutions for SCN and SDS on Weger’s farm in Robinson, Illinois.
Double Duty: Grower Brad Weger (left) and Syngenta Seed Advisor
Jake Hoalt (right) survey a soybean field on Weger’s farm.
Double Duty: Clariva® Complete Beans seed treatment and Mertect®
340-F fungicide can work together to help growers manage SDS.
Double Duty: Grower Brad Weger examines soybean roots on his farm.
Double Duty: Grower Brad Weger inspects a soybean pod from his
field.
Double Duty: A four-bean pod is a good indicator that grower Brad
Weger will achieve high yields on his farm.
Fighting Hunger: A Homestead Heirloom tomato plant grows in the
Syngenta Community Garden in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Fighting Hunger: During a community work day, Syngenta volunteers
tend to vegetables growing in the garden.
Fighting Hunger: Guoling Luo with Syngenta donates time to the
garden.
Fighting Hunger: Keith LeGrow with Syngenta also helps the garden
thrive.
Fighting Hunger: Becky Cade with Syngenta holds a lettuce transplant.
Fighting Hunger: George Aux with Syngenta proudly displays healthy
collard greens grown in the garden.
The Science of Artesian Corn: Christine Chaulk-Grace, pictured
here in her LaSalle office, has managed the LaSalle Managed Stress Environment (MSE)
site since its inception and has helped establish additional MSE sites throughout
the world.
The Science of Artesian Corn: Syngenta research associate Randy
Lebsack schedules and monitors irrigation and notes crop development observations,
among other responsibilities, at the LaSalle MSE site. He works there with three
other full-time time employees.
The Science of Artesian Corn: Soil moisture, leaf temperature and
chlorophyll content are among the readings Syngenta Associate Scientist Aubrey Weiland
takes to determine the irrigation schedule at the LaSalle MSE site.
The Science of Artesian Corn: Syngenta Research Associate Daniel
Willis inspects a row of soybeans at the LaSalle MSE site. In addition to corn and
soybeans, sunflowers and wheat are studied at the site.
The Science of Artesian Corn: NK® Corn hybrid N45P Artesian™ brand
grows at the LaSalle MSE site.
The Science of Artesian Corn: An irrigation canal at the LaSalle
MSE site channels well water to a series of filters before the water is applied
to the crop via drip tape.
Summer 2015
Photo Gallery
Seed Wise: Aaron Spencer (left), grower and Syngenta Seed Advisor,
welcomes Justin Anderson, a Syngenta sales representative, to his farm in Ottawa,
Kansas.
Seed Wise: (from left to right) Aaron Spencer, Brad Spencer, Justin
Anderson (of Syngenta) and Kevin Spencer work together as a team to increase yields
and profits on the Spencers' corn and soybean farm.
Seed Wise: Brad Spencer (left) checks on the progress of his early-season
corn with Justin Anderson of Syngenta.
Seed Wise: Young corn thrives in Fancy Farm, Kentucky.
Seed Wise: Bo Brooker (left), Syngenta sales representative, discusses
online farm data with Vince Thomason of Crop Production Services in Fancy Farm,
Kentucky.
Spring 2015
Photo Gallery
Breaking Down Resistance: From left to right: Members of the Resistance Fighter Leadership Program Paul Barchenger, Jeremy Kichler, Steve Muhlenbruch and Clint Einspahr discuss the latest research in managing resistance with Vinod Shivrain of Syngenta.
Breaking Down Resistance: Rakesh Jain of Syngenta speaks with Paul Barchenger and Clint Einspahr.
Breaking Down Resistance: Members of the Resistance Fighter of the Year Leadership Program observe plants in a greenhouse at the Syngenta Vero Beach Research Center in Florida.
Breaking Down Resistance: Clint Einspahr and Jeremy Kichler walk through a citrus grove at the Syngenta Vero Beach Research Center.
Breaking Down Resistance: Katherine Buxton of Syngenta shares her observations of plant roots with members of the Resistance Fighter of the Year Leadership Program.
Breaking Down Resistance: From left to right, starting with the back row: Steve Muhlenbruch, Paul Barchenger, Joel Spring, Clint Einspahr, Tim Hambrick and Jeremy Kichler pose in front of the Syngenta Vero Beach Research Center.
The Leading Edge: Laura Martin (left) with Syngenta and Boseman
Farms' Cathy Hendricks review crop data at the farm's sweet potato-packing facility
near Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The Leading Edge: Workers at Boseman Farms pack sweet potatoes in shipping boxes.
The Leading Edge: Sweet potatoes grown on Boseman Farms are ready for packing.
The Leading Edge: Cathy Hendricks keeps meticulous records for Boseman Farms.