Steve Wilkens
Soybean Agronomy Lead, BASF
- Role
- Soybean Agronomy Lead at BASF
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Soybean Agronomy Lead
Dec 2025 — Present · Research Triangle Park, NC, US
Lead the agronomic services team and provide technical leadership for BASF\'s soybean seed and trait business across the U.S. soybean producing regions. Provide strategic direction, aligning the soybean portfolio to enable growth, achieving sales targets and objectives. Manage market intelligence and oversee regional agronomic teams and programs including in-field evaluation programs to optimize testing strategies. Support commercialization of soybean varieties, leading priorities, performance metrics and lifecycle management plans for the Xitavo brand. Collaboration and cross functional work with sales, breeding, trait development, technical services and external stakeholders.Support technical launches of BASF trait technologies and digital farming initiatives.
Education
UW Platteville
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Agronomy and Crop Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics
2004 — 2008
UW Madison
Master of Science (M.S.), Agronomy
2009 — 2011
Skills
- Key Account Development
- Agronomy
- Conflict Management
- Agricultural Research
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Direct Sales
- Sales
- Plant Breeding
- Product Development
- Management
- Strategic Planning
- Plant Pathology
- Product Evaluations
- Corn
- Agribusiness
- Business Planning
- Product Marketing
- Farms
- Key Account Management
- Agriculture
- Confidentiality
- Crop Protection
- Leadership
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