FBSciences’ Newly Promoted CTO Shares New Products, Goals
5 December 2012 FBSciences, Inc., has announced the promotion of Terry Hanson to chief technology officer (CTO). With 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, production, and research and development—including 15 years of emphasis in agricultural chemistry — the former vice president of research & development at FBSciences has worked to expand the company’s global influence in naturally derived products and active ingredients that promote plant health.
As CTO, Hanson will oversee all aspects of the company’s proprietary technology from screening to registration, to identify future generations of the company’s exclusive plant growth regulator products.
On projects FBSciences will be taking on the future, Hanson says, “Our principle project right now is the development and eventual commercialization of our first seed treatment product. With the increase in usage of genetically modified seeds, farmers’ investment in seed has grown dramatically.”
Hanson also explains that he has seen a reduction in seeding rates as growers are tending to rely more on seed technology to protect against losses due to pest and disease pressures. This, he explains, makes it even more important to protect the reduced plant populations by using the best available treatments.
“In this environment, technologies such as those FBSciences produces are of increasing interest as seed companies are looking for treatments that will provide value and product differentiation in the marketplace,” explains the new CTO.
Fundamental changes like a reduction in seeding rate are just the tip of the iceberg for agriculture industry developments, though, Hanson says. “We are on the leading edge of an emerging trend in agriculture. During the last century, increases in production involved products that addressed the biotech factors that affect crop production. These advances came with the development of hard chemistries such as herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and improved crop breeding practices. The next wave of increases in agricultural production is being led by advances in biology, including biotechnology and the use of naturally derived compounds that address abiotic stresses from water, temperature, and soil conditions to positively affect plant health.”
Of the new CTO, FBSciences’ CEO, Dr. David N. Duncan says, “FBSciences needed someone with a 360 degree perspective to oversee basic chemistry research, applied field research, active ingredient screening, and our global registration efforts, all unified in creating commercially successful, naturally derived plant health products with the potential to someday be used on every managed acre in the world.”
For more information on FBSciences, go to www.fbsciences.com.
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