Our Spring/Summer Newsletter!🌽

Bayer Marana

Spring/Summer Newsletter

Spring is here and summer is right around the corner!

Our team has been spending time working on innovations to help support the needs of our planet while making connections, check out what we've been up to since the beginning of the year.

Your 2023 Bayer Marana Product Development Center Spring/Summer newsletter has arrived!

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First Bayer Crop Science Town Hall of 2023

The Bayer Crop Science town hall was held in the greenhouse meeting space

Leadership tour of Marana Product Development Center

Edson Kemper and April Agee-Carroll

Bayer Crop Science Executive Leadership Team

We had a big week in Marana, after lots of planning and a lot of teamwork we hosted the first live Crop Science Town Hall of 2023 during our first quarter. There were also plenty of visitors from the Executive Leadership Team who took their first tour of the greenhouse including Rodrigo Santos President of the Crop Science Division and Tom Armitage Head of Crop Science Communications just to name a couple.

The town hall was a hit and all-around success, we had the opportunity to showcase some of the amazing work that we do in Marana every day. Rodrigo talked about the innovative work done in 2022 and what’s ahead for 2023.

Other speakers included Kelly Gast, who gave us the financials, Bob Reiter had details about Research and Development (R&D) and Dr. Jeremy Williams talked about the impact of Climate/Digital Farming. Our Bayer Marana Product Development Center Site Lead Edson Kemper and Pac-West Regional Nursery Design and Strategy Lead April Agee Carroll shared wonderful highlights about Precision Breeding and the R&D we do for Crop Science.

We want to thank everyone who participated and helped to make the event happen. The visiting leadership team also held a Q&A session with staff to talk about opportunities to grow within the company.

More than 3,500 colleagues from around the world attended the town hall online.

The Marana team joined thousands of others at the 2023 Southern Arizona American Heart Association Heart Walk

It was a proud day for the Bayer Product Development Center who took part in the 2023 Southern Arizona Heart Walk. Event organizers say they surpassed their goal of $425,000 and team Marana contributed nearly $3,800 of that. Our team stepped up along with many others from across Southern Arizona to show their support. Organizers from the American Heart Association say the event raised its highest revenue ever with over $445,000 and an estimated 4,000 people attended. We’re looking forward to participating in 2024.

Employee Appreciation Day & Earth Day Activities

In celebration of Earth Day this year our team participated in the day and made a difference in our local ecosystem. There was some rock painting and planting of native plants on site. There was also time set aside for debris clean-up of areas around the Bayer Marana Product Development Center. We added plants to our pollinator garden inside of our greenhouse and added some native cactuses to our décor to make our area more beautiful. Seeds and rain gages were also given to staff to plant and use at home. But that's not all we've been up to!

Employee Appreciation Day 2023 was also a big success. The leadership team gave a special thank you to our administrative and greenhouse teams for all of the hard work they do everyday to help make the world a better place for the future. Everyone on site was able to create their very own Mexican treats with the help of Creativo Yessenia Snack Bar.

Women's Global Breakfast

The team at Bayer Marana participated in the 2023 Global Women's Breakfast event hosted by Women in Science Exchange (WiSE) West earlier this year. The goal of the event is to create more opportunities in science and technology for women and girls starting in elementary school. There was a breakfast/brunch and along with panelists from all over the country who shared their experiences in the world of science, technology, and education. Bayer sites from Arizona to California and the Hawaiian Islands participated, it was such a great event!!!

Teeing up for a good cause

We want to give a big shout out to our fearless golfers (Marissa, Tyler, John & Daniel) who represented the Bayer Marana Product Development Center at the 5th Annual Tee Up 4 Teachers charity golf tournament in Tucson. It looks like they had a blast! The non-profit organization raises money to give educators free to low-cost, hands-on interactive learning materials for students to use in their classrooms.

We're Hiring!

We're hiring! The Bayer Marana Greenhouse team is in need of strong candidates to fill more than full-time open positions on site. Do you know someone ready to join a world class team right here in Marana? Click here to share our posting.

*Note* Seed Technician positions include multiple roles in one job posting.

You can also sign up for the Bayer Talent Community site that easily matches your skills to open positions!

Visit us, virtually!

Thank you for reading our quarterly newsletter! If you would like more information about our site or request a tour, visit our page at Bayer.us/Marana

You can also check out this overview video of our site, this virtual tour and our story about the regular release of Ladybugs on site.