Bayer Corporation’s Agriculture Division announced the following employee transitions and promotions: Trevor Thorley to senior vice president, sales and marketing, in the company’s crop protection business group; Rich Burns to director, Garden and Professional Care sales and marketing; Michael Ruizzo to central area sales manager, GPC professional sales and marketing; Jorge Moreno to marketing product specialist, GPC professional sales and marketing and Byron Reid to research product manager for the Bayer GPC pest control market.
John Rector joined Turf-Seed as national sales manager/agronomist.
Weather-matic and Telsco Industries named Michael Mason president and chief executive officer, succeeding L.O. Snoddy, who became chairman of the board. In addition, Weathermatic announced the following moves: Brodie Bruner to sales and marketing manager; Lloyd Darling to plant operations manager; Matthew Piper to product and service manager.
Swingle Tree Co. appointed Tom Tolkacz president and Dave Dickson as chairman/chief executive officer.
Ball Seed added Matthew Freeman and Coy Butner to its sales force. Freeman is the sales representative for the central and northern Illinois territory and Butner is the sales representative for the Midwest territory, including northern and western Iowa, eastern Nebraska and northwestern Missouri.
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