Dirk C. Drost

Dirk Drost received his Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Wisconsin in 1982. His retirement from Syngenta Crop Protection in 2019 marked 37 years of employment in the crop protection industry. During that time, Dirk represented Syngenta as a Liaison to the IR-4 Project and collaborated to initiate and complete many research projects resulting in new uses of existing and new crop protection chemicals being extended to specialty crops and minor uses. Yet, Dirk still remains active in the minor use industry through involvement as a board member of the Council for Agriculture Science and Technology and Board Chairman of the Minor Use Foundation.