Fontanelle Adds Regional Agronomist

March 15, 2008

“We are pleased to announce the addition of Gabe Hardman as a Regional Sales Agronomist to the Fontanelle sales team,” Steve Pike, Fontanelle president, Fontanelle, Nebraska said. “With Gabe’s agronomic background and his communications experience, we know that our customers in the southwestern portion of our area including Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado and western Nebraska will receive valuable management and placement support.”

Gabe Hardman, who will soon be relocating to Hays, Kansas, has six years of experience as a crop consultant that included writing agronomic articles for a regional and local newspaper. “With Fontanelle I’ll be supporting the Sales Team and dealers with product and agronomy information plus doing a lot of the training through out the year,” Hardman said. “I was interested in a change of pace and that, plus talking to Fontanelle district sales managers and hearing them speak so highly of Fontanelle, joining Fontanelle seemed like a good fit.”

Fontanelle Hybrids markets corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, alfalfa and sunflowers in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri and portions of Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Texas as an independent operating company within American Seeds Inc, a holding company of Monsanto.

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