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Donn Cummings Remembers Norman Borlaug

Aug 24, 2021

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Video: Donn Cummings Remembers Norman Borlaug


The National Association for Plant Breeders (NAPB) Friends of Plant Breeding Award honors individuals whose career may or may not have been involved in plant breeding, but who, through their professional activities and passion have contributed significantly to the advancement of the plant breeding discipline.

The 2020 recipient is Dr. Donn Cummings, who will speak at this week’s virtual meeting of the NAPB. During a 30-year career with Pfizer Genetics, DeKalb and Monsanto, Cummings was a highly successful corn breeder, Station Manager and Area Research Director. Donn became Monsanto’s Global Breeder Sourcing Lead in 2007, where he provided overall leadership and global strategic planning to build and maintain a Ph.D. and M.S. level plant breeder talent pipeline for Monsanto until his retirement in 2015.