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OHP Expands Sales Team with New Hire and Internal Promotion
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina | March 12, 2026 – AMGUARD™ Environmental Technologies (“AMGUARD”), the specialty markets division of AMVAC Chemical Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Vanguard Corporation (“AVD”), today announced two key additions to its OHP sales organization: the hiring of Alfredo Lara as Technical Sales Manager and the promotion of Joe Continue Reading »
Samurai Precision Meets Midwest Horticulture: Inside the Collaboration Driving Grafting Automation
At Ohio State, a compact Japanese machine is helping researchers rethink what’s possible with vegetable grafting — and opening new doors for crop resilience, labor savings, and food system innovation. In a quiet greenhouse at The Ohio State University, a compact robot is doing something profound: it’s grafting tomatoes with near-perfect accuracy, and it’s doing Continue Reading »
Willoway’s Secret to Moving 36,000 Hydrangeas? Six Driverless Burros
You might find yourself doing a double take at Willoway Nurseries in Avon, Ohio, where self-driving vehicles are the new norm. Spread across 1,000 acres, the operation recently deployed six autonomous tractors from a Philly-based company called Burro, and their impact on efficiency has been immediate.The Burros arrived in spring and are already proving to Continue Reading »