DLF hires new North America EVP

DLF added Matt Fanta as executive vice president for North America.

Fanta brings experience from throughout the agricultural industry, working across the seed and nutrition sectors. Most recently, he served as president of Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, where he led the full value chain with full P&L responsibility. Prior to that, he worked 20 years with Land O’Lakes, holding senior leadership roles, including VP for feed marketing, VP for Asia/Pacific and president of Forage Genetics International.

“Matt brings the right mix of strategic leadership, people focus, industry experience and deep understanding of the North American market,” DLF group CEO Søren Halbye said. “I’m confident he will be a strong asset to both the North American team and to DLF globally.”

DLF is the global market leader in turf and forage seed, supplying seeds to more than 100 countries. Owned by Danish seed farmers, the company has a complete supply chain within turf and forage seed, sugar and fodder beet seed, seed potatoes and the multiplication of vegetable seed.