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.