NeuAg LLC, Freeport, Texas, reported that Wesley Kirkham will join the company as Sales Manager-Texas, effective May 3, 2021, overseeing ammonium sulfate sales in Texas and surrounding areas. He will report directly to Joe Newcomb, President of Sales and Marketing.
Kirkham was most recently Business Development Manager for Latin America for the Actogram line of soil health products. He has also worked for CHS Inc., Archer Daniels Midland, Traylor Chemical and Supply, American Cyanamid, and the family farming operation in Anahuac, Texas.
NeuAg said during Kirkham’s career he has worked with retailers and distributors across the U.S. and Latin America. It also noted that he was instrumental with the construction of the first sulfur prilling plant in Mexico and has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Central America, and many countries in South America. He was instrumental in registrations of packaged agricultural fertilizers in seven Latin American countries. He is fluent in Spanish, as well as some Portuguese.
Kirkham is a graduate of Texas A&M, with a degree in Agronomy.
NeuAg also announced that Bryan Guipre has joined the company to lead sales for the national spray adjuvant market. The company said he has a 35-year track record in agribusiness, having worked in various environments, including retail and wholesale fertilizer sales and market development, seed sales and distribution management, biological startups, and carbon credit markets. He can be reached at bryan.guipre@neu-ag.com.