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Syngenta donates sweet corn to Missouri growers
Aug. 13, 2014
The local Syngenta team and a Missouri corn grower joined to help needy families in east-central Missouri by donating 4,386 pounds of sweet corn to the St. Louis Area Foodbank.
The sweet corn grew out of a collaboration with Syngenta, which supplied the seed to Todd Glosemeyer, a Missouri Corn Growers Association (MCGA) member and farmer from Marthasville, Missouri. Glosemeyer planted about a half acre of corn, which grew enough food to feed 549 families. When the corn reached maturity, student council members and teachers from Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri joined Syngenta, MCGA staff and other local youth to pick the fields. St. Louis Area Foodbank, the bi-state region’s largest non-profit food distribution center dedicated to feeding those in need, accepted the donation on site.
The outreach is just one example of how Syngenta is working to improve the lives of those in rural communities. In September 2013, Syngenta launched The Good Growth Plan to help farmers across the world grow more food using fewer resources, while protecting nature and improving life for people in rural communities.
"We were proud to partner with MCGA, the Glosemeyer family and Pattonville High School to provide top-quality sweet corn to food banks in Missouri. With each bushel of corn, we helped feed others," said Bradley Hoene, Syngenta sales representative, Eureka, Missouri. "Through this partnership, we demonstrated the contributions that local organizations, along with Syngenta, can make to greatly improve the lives of those in our communities."
"While our members typically grow field corn for feed, ethanol and exports, this sweet corn partnership gave us the opportunity to reach out to families struggling to make ends meet," said MCGA Director of Grower Services Matt Amick. "We are proud our members chose to be partners in this event and help provide fresh produce to community members in need."
The program also was rolled out in Jefferson City and Norborne. Protector sweet corn seed with Attribute® II trait stack, donated by Syngenta for this program, produces, clean, delicious produce by controlling destructive insects, including corn earworm, black cutworm and western bean cutworm. These are the same pest protection benefits found in field corn with an Agrisure Viptera® trait stack.
Source: Syngenta USA
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