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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedA. Forrest Troyer receives the Siehl Prize for Excellence in Agriculture
Agri Marketing, May, 2009
A. Forrest Troyer receives the Siehl Prize for Excellence in Agriculture.
His career was spent primarily as a corn breeder at Pioneer, DeKalb and Cargill. His work produced 40 commercial hybrids that sold more than 60 million units of seed. After retiring from Cargill in 1998, he was appointed as an adjunct professor of crop sciences at the University of Illinois.
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The Prize was created in the early 1990s by a gift from New Ulm, MN, livestock breeder and businessman Eldon Siehl, a dedicated philanthropist who had a lifelong interest n agricultural systems. Recipients receive a P,000 award as well as a sculpture and lapel pin.
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