Daniel L. Kunkel

Daniel Kunkel received his Ph.D. in Fruit and Vegetable Science from Cornell University in 1991. He began working for the IR-4 Project after graduating and spent the next 30 years coordinating domestic and international herbicide research projects resulting in numerous solutions for a broad array of minor crops. Dan is currently the Northeast Field Product Development Director for AMVAC Chemical Corporation supporting corn and specialty crops in the Northeast U.S. Throughout his career, Dan has been a champion of global stakeholder collaboration for minor uses cultivating relationships between governments, universities, grower groups and other industry activists. He co-chaired the Global Minor Use Summits in 2012, 2017 and helped organize the First Global Minor Use Workshop where minor use industry leaders met to discuss and set research priorities.