AgriThority adds research manager to Latin America

Date:04-21-2015

AgriThority LLC, an integrated agricultural science consultancy providing product and field development services to the crop protection, seed, seed treatment, plant nutrition and precision agriculture sectors globally, announces the addition of Ignacio Colonna as Research Manager - Latin America to meet the company's rapidly growing research-based business.

Colonna will oversee all lab, greenhouse and field research operations, as well as data analysis and analytics projects in Latin America for AgriThority clients.

A native of Argentina, Colonna was most recently employed by Pioneer Argentina SRL where he was a research scientist working throughout Latin America for nine years. During that time, Colonna was responsible for hybrid characterization and advancement through field trial planning, data collection and analysis.

His characterization work involved the development of analytical tools based on environmental data and crop models to support corn hybrid positioning and implementation of new technologies for phenotyping.

After earning a degree in agronomic engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Colonna moved to the U.S. for his master's degree in agronomy from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in crop sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.