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Jim Gray
Executive Director
Jim Gray is the executive director of the Industry Task Force II on 2,4-D Research Data, a role he has held since November 2007. He has more than two decades of professional and regulatory experience in the agriculture and biotechnology industries.
Gray worked extensively in corporate settings at Fortune 100 level companies prior to joining the Task Force and is a recognized and trusted resource for corporations, grower boards, state-level departments of agriculture and various state legislatures and regulatory bodies across the country.
His career experience spans the agricultural, food, feed and bio-energy industries, dealing with a variety of stewardship issues on topics ranging from traits, seed and chemical inputs, crop production, ethanol, biodiesel, feed and food processing and more. He worked with Bayer CropScience as the state affairs manager, with the Western Crop Protection Association as the director of regulatory and environmental affairs, and as a production manager and sales representative with a variety of prominent agricultural and chemical companies.
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Larry Hammond
Chairman, Technical Committee
Larry Hammond is the chairman of the Technical Committee for the Industry Task Force II on 2,4-D Research Data and has been instrumental in this role for the past 19 years. Retired after 30 years of service to the crop protection industry through several positions with the Dow Chemical Company and Dow AgroSciences, he is experienced and extremely well-versed in managing and coordinating research to gain and maintain international, federal and state registrations of pesticide, herbicide and fungicide crop protection products.
As chairman of the Technical Committee, Hammond has helped direct the Task Force data development of more than 300 laboratory studies and is frequently asked to interpret, defend and communicate about various aspects of this research with regulatory authorities including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency and many others.
Prior to launching a successful career with Dow Chemical, Hammond served for five years as a U.S. Air Force instructor pilot flying the T-38 Talon jet aircraft trainer. For his service, the Air Force granted him two honorary degrees, both a master’s and a doctoral degree in flight instruction, to accompany his bachelor’s from the University of Nebraska. With Dow Chemical, Hammond helped to establish two world class field stations for scientific crop protection product research, one in Illinois, the other in Brazil. He is widely known and revered as one of the top technical minds in the chemical data industry.