H.J. Baker, Westport, Conn., announced on March 30 that Gary Bingham has joined its Crop Performance Division as regional sales manager for the Pacific Northwest. He will be in charge of growing sales of H.J. Baker’s Tiger-Sul product line in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Utah.
Bingham has more than 20 years of industry experience in sales and marketing. He held previous positions at Valley Wide Cooperative, where he generated $3 million in new business annually and increased savings by negotiating procurement and inventory programs and purchasing contracts with key partners. Bingham also spent several years working with Land View Inc. as an area manager. For the past 15 years he has played a key role in building a nationwide Potato Growers Co-op, and has also worked with Monsanto’s NatureMark Potatoes.