Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 10/20/21



Growing up in a rural town on a small family farm, Andrew Scruggs became fascinated with plants. His childhood love of plants continued  through high school and at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Now the alumnus serves as the market development representative for Bayer Crop Science in the Seminis Vegetable Seed division. 

“We have plant breeders who are continually developing new varieties of crops like tomatoes and watermelons with improved characteristics such as flavor and disease resistance. My job is to take all of the new potential varieties our breeders create and trial them in small plot research trials across the Carolinas and East Tennessee,” Scruggs explains.

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