Our Sustaining Associates are an important and integral part of the ESA membership mix. ESA is thankful for the support we receive from our corporate partners. Sustaining Associates are full members of the Society and enjoy the same rights and privileges that all individual members share. Each Sustaining Associate designates an official representative to receive these benefits. Our current Sustaining Associates for the current year are:
BASF is a major supplier of agricultural products and fine chemicals to the farming, food processing, pharmaceuticals, animal and human nutrition and personal care industries. Our research activities in plant biotechnology focus on solutions for effective agriculture, healthier nutrition and plants to make products more efficiently.
Bayer CropScience is a world leader in providing pest management solutions in all areas of food and fiber production. The company is also a world leader in home pest protection solutions and animal health care.
Supported by more than 6,000 employees in 50 countries, Dow AgroSciences LLC is a global leader in providing pest management and biotechnology products that improve the quality and quantity of the earth’s food supply and contribue to the safety, health, and quality of the life of the world’s growing population.
As part of the DuPont Agriculture and Nutrition business, DuPont Crop Protection provides agricultural products for the grain and specialty crop sectors, as well as forestry and vegetation management. Their products include global herbicide, fungicide, and insecticide products and services. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, DuPont Crop Protection works to satisfy the world’s need for food and nutrition by transforming the ways renewable resources are grown, processed, and distributed.
Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) is a leading provider of agricultural solutions to growers worldwide. Monsanto employees provide top quality, cost effective and integrated approaches that help farmers improve their productivity and produce better quality foods. For more information on Monsanto, see www.monsanto.com.
With more than 20,000 employees worldwide and sales of approximately $7 billion, Syngenta is one of the world’s leading agribusinesses, operating across all major areas of crop protection and seeds.
FMC Corporation is a global, diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and specialty markets for more than a century with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. The company employs approximately 5,500 people throughout the world. FMC Corporation divides its businesses into three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Products and Industrial Chemicals.
Founded in 1969, American Vanguard is a diversified specialty and agricultural products company that develops and markets crop protection, turf and ornamental products and public health insecticides. The Company’s chief strategy is to acquire niche product lines from multi-billion dollar companies that divest mature products to focus on newly discovered molecules.
Headquartered in Concord, Ohio, has primary responsibility for the development, registration and logistics for ISK’s products in the Americas. ISK Biosciences is developing two new insecticide products to serve a growing global market—a selective foliar-applied insecticide (flonicamid) for control of aphids and other sucking pests on food and ornamental crops and a contact nematicide/insecticide (fosthiazate) that was recently registered for use on tomatoes (Nemathorin 500EC).
As the oldest and most reliable supplier of insect diets, diet ingredients, and rearing supplies, Bio-Serv offers about 100 insect diet formulas, professional service, and convenience at reasonable costs. Their new insect rearing kit is ideal for small to medium-sized rearing operations.
To participate in the Sustaining Associates Program, please contact Chris Stelzig, 301-731-4535, extension 3021. ESA extends sincere thanks and appreciation to our Sustaining Associates.