| Eagan, Minn., February
1, 2000 . . . Jon Erickson has joined Mycogen Seeds as a regional agronomist serving
sales representatives and customers in Wisconsin, the upper peninsula of Michigan and
parts of southeastern Minnesota. "With
his well-rounded education and years of experience in agronomy and customer service, Jon
will be able to hit the ground running in this position," says Neil Bain, Mycogen
regional sales manager.
Erickson has been a certified professional
agronomist for 15 years. Before joining Mycogen Seeds, Erickson was a field sales
representative for American Cyanamid, servicing customers in a 25-county area in
Wisconsin. Prior to his work with American Cyanamid, he developed commercial sales and
directed customer technical assistance as agronomy department manager for a Wisconsin
cooperative.
Erickson graduated from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, Wis., in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in agronomy. He is
certified as a professional agronomist through the American Registry of Certified
Professionals in Agronomy – Crops & Soils (ARCPACS) and is a certified crop
advisor (CCA).
Mycogen Seeds is a wholly owned subsidiary of The
Dow Chemical Company and is an affiliate of Dow AgroSciences. Mycogen markets grain corn,
silage corn and nutritionally enhanced corn seed, as well as sunflower, canola, soybean,
alfalfa and sorghum seed through a distribution system of sales representatives,
distributors and retail outlets in the Corn Belt, the eastern United States and in major
dairy areas throughout the country.
For more information on Mycogen, go to www.mycogen.com on the Internet. |
