84 / SEEDWORLD.COM JUNE 2019 Seed and grain cleanerS for the world Crippen Northland Superior Supply Co. 8-851 Lagimodiere Blvd. Winnipeg, MB Ph: 204-925-6141 www.northlandsuperior.com Air Screen Cleaners Indented Cylinder Length Separator Gravity Separator In this position, Johnson will be responsible for managing the company’s relationships with national and regional seed companies. Arcadia Biosciences announced that Randy Shultz has joined the company’s leadership team as head of Research and Development. Shultz has nearly 20 years of experience in plant science and agricultural biotechnology. The former global crop lead at Inari Agriculture, he also served there as the director of R&D and senior director of R&D strategy. Bonnie Plants announced that president and CEO, Stan Cope, has decided to retire after 51 years of valued service. Mike Sutterer, formerly the senior vice president and General Manager, Gardens Business, at Scotts Miracle-Gro, has been appointed to the position of President, effective April 1, with Cope remaining as CEO through December 2019. La Crosse Seed recently added a natives specialist to its native grass and wildflower seed business, giving customers a dedicated resource to meet demand for an expanding conservation seed market. Carlie Von Arx, who has a Bachelor of Science in sustainability, has assumed the new role. She joins the company’s growing conservation seed team comprised of cover crop, wildlife and food plot leads. Beck Ag, Inc. announced the appointment of Richard Bettison as the company’s new chief executive officer (CEO). The announcement came from Beck Ag Founder and Board Chairman John Finegan. Prior to Beck Ag, Bettison served as Head, Commercial Insight for Syngenta, and as president/CEO of AGDATA, LP. Bayer’s Board of Management has appointed Monika Lessl as Bayer Foundations’ executive committee member to lead both the Bayer Science Foundation and the Bayer Cares Foundation. This role will be integrated into her current leadership of Bayer’s Corporate Innovation and R&D function. During the EPS conference in Lunteren, Peter Bourke from Wageningen University & Research, received the Hugo de Vries Award from the Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands (KNBV). The award is for his PhD thesis “Genetic mapping in polyploids” on which he received his PhD (cum laude) in June 2018 at Wageningen University & Research. PRODUCT NEWS Ceres Imaging, an aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that improves decision making by providing farmers a comprehensive view of their farm, announced an expanded platform partnership agreement with The Climate Corporation (Climate), a subsidiary of Bayer, to further integrate the Ceres aerial imaging solution with the Climate FieldView™ platform, the industry’s leading digital agriculture platform. Eurofins BioDiagnostics Inc. announced the addition of a new service offering to their portfolio. They now offer a highly specific and low-cost, probe-based PCR test to detect Amaranthus Tuberculatus/rudis (waterhemp) among seeds of other Amaranthus species. Limagrain UK is launching Unicorn, a new rape kale hybrid brassica, this month. Bred by Limagrain, Unicorn is a fast- growing leafy catch crop. It is backed with outstanding results from UK trials that place it as one of the best performing rape kale hybrid brassicas available to UK livestock producers. Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc.’s (OSF) newest nonbrowning Arctic apple variety, Arctic Fuji, completed the voluntary review process with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Arctic Fuji’s are the third apple variety OSF has been approved to grow, along with Arctic Golden and Arctic Granny apples that previously received regulatory approval in 2015. Golden Harvest is expanding its soybean portfolio with the latest trait technology. By adding the new Enlist E3 to its current portfolio – which already includes Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield, Roundup Ready 2 Xtend and Liberty Link soybeans – Golden Harvest offers farmers access to more trait choices than almost any other seed company. In addition, the company is evaluating the LibertyLink GT27 trait to offer even more choice. SW