Marcel Barbier, Ph.D.

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Innovative Global Agriculture Strategist | Orchestrating Profitable Growth through Advanced Plant Health & Nutrition Solutions | Soil & Plant Scientist | Expert in Eco-friendly Crop Nutrition & Protection @ B&W Quality Growers, LLC
Vero Beach, FL, US
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Vero Beach, Florida, United States, United States
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About Marcel Barbier, Ph.D.

🌱 Passionate about Sustainable Agriculture & Eco-friendly Solutions 🌿Welcome! I'm Dr. Marcel Barbier, a dedicated soil and plant scientist with a mission to revolutionize agriculture through sustainable practices and innovative solutions. With a Ph.D. in Soil and Plant Nutrition from the University of Florida and a background in Plant Health Management, I specialize in optimizing crop health and nutrition to ensure healthier yields that benefit both humans and animals.My career journey has been driven by a commitment to developing and enhancing eco-friendly biopesticides and fertilizers. I've spearheaded initiatives within major agribusiness corporations, leveraging my expertise to create effective, organic solutions derived from naturally occurring plant extracts and minerals. These efforts aim to mitigate ecological harm linked to synthetic agrochemicals, reduce exposure to hazardous substances for workers and consumers, and enhance overall agricultural sustainability.My key strengths lie in identifying market needs and tailoring integrated programs that foster profitable growth. I thrive on driving projects that marry technological advancements with ecological responsibility, empowering both small-scale farmers and major corporations to prosper sustainably.Let's connect and explore how my expertise in plant health, nutrition, and eco-friendly solutions can contribute to your agricultural initiatives. Together, we can cultivate a greener, more sustainable future for our planet.

Marcel Barbier, Ph.D.'s Current Company Details
B&W Quality Growers, LLC

B&W Quality Growers, Llc

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Innovative Global Agriculture Strategist | Orchestrating Profitable Growth through Advanced Plant Health & Nutrition Solutions | Soil & Plant Scientist | Expert in Eco-friendly Crop Nutrition & Protection
Vero Beach, FL, US
Marcel Barbier, Ph.D. Work Experience Details
  • B&W Quality Growers, Llc
    B&W Quality Growers, Llc
    Vero Beach, Fl, Us
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  • Monty'S Plant Food Company
    International Chief Technical Lead
    Monty'S Plant Food Company Jan 2020 - Present
    Louisville, Kentucky, Us
    Nutrient Solutions by Humic Experts
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  • Abc Organics, Llc
    President - Ceo / Consultant
    Abc Organics, Llc May 2010 - Present
    ABC Organics, LLC is committed to supporting the agricultural community by doing scientific-practical research trials of soil and plant nutrition, crop protection, and biostimulants. ABC Organics, LLC performs market research to better understand farmers' real needs over induced needs and based on findings makes business strategies recommendations. ABC Organics, LLC, consults individual customers as well as corporations to develop new products going from R&D and Registration to Sales & Marketing. ABC Organics, LLC offers translation services of agricultural-related documents, books, and scientific articles mainly from English to Spanish, and to Portuguese and vice-versa, and under request to other languages.
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  • Yara International
    Senior Sales Agronomist
    Yara International Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
    Oslo, No
    I was contracted to perform market research in Northern California to determine the level of Yara awareness, to analyze the level of relationship of Yara Sales team has with distributors and farmers, and to develop a method to collect information about farmers' planting area by crop in this specific region. After data collection, I developed a process for data cleansing and processing to final guesstimate the biological sales potential for Yara products in that specific region per farm per crop. Around 3000 contact information was collected and processed. Finally, data was transferred to marketing for work on the interfaces to load the data into Yara’s CRM software. During the time of data collection, I established a good relationship with the personnel at the different Departments of Agriculture in the top 10 counties in Northern California.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Development Specialist
    Rio Tinto Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
    London, Greater London, Gb
    I continuously developed and promoted a “Safety First” as an injury-free company philosophy. My main responsibility was to develop key relationships with potential customers, coordinated research, field trials, and create innovative programs leading Latin America product trials. I also had to provide technical support to Sales Managers and customers about the use of boron in crop nutrition and crop protection. I also presented Rio Tinto's research findings at several international conferences including the Argus Added Value Fertilizer, TFI, and other conferences. I consulted the global agriculture team and presented at different conferences in China. The powerpoint I created for training still being used by every member of Rio Tinto - US Borax global agriculture team.
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  • Kellogg Garden Products
    Post Doc As Vp Research And Development
    Kellogg Garden Products Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
    Carson, Ca, Us
    My main responsibility was to ensure the company was recognized as a partner by fulfilling obligations to the community. Other responsibilities I had was to provide technical support to operations to ensure production and business goals were accomplished, assisted the sales and marketing teams to meet sales and profit objectives, oversaw and supervised the design and execution of multivariate studies of current and new products, and interacted closely with universities, laboratories, distributors, key customers, and other producers.
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  • Stockton Group
    Online R&D Consultant
    Stockton Group Jan 2010 - Oct 2015
    Petach Tikva, Il
    While studying and working on my Ph.D. degree, I consulted Stk by designing and coordinating field experiments for Timorex Gold for several research studies in various crops in Latin America. My collaboration with Stk led to the major significance discoveries, such as the discovery of the mode of action of Timorex Gold, the compatibility of Timorex Gold with QoI inhibitor fungicides that have lost efficacy due to resistant development by pathogens, and the soil activity of Timorex Gold on controlling Monosporascus cannonballus, a soil born pathogen that causes vine decline on cucurbits. My work was very important for Timorex Gold obtained the Agrow Award for the Best New Biopesticide in 2013 and for the Best Marketing Campaign in 2015.
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  • Stockton Group
    Regional Manager For Central America
    Stockton Group Aug 2006 - Dec 2009
    Petach Tikva, Il
    After left Syngenta, I became a partner with Peter Tirosh (RIP), and registered Stockton in Central America and the Dominican Republic. During the time I was partnering Peter, I managed all company activities from opening offices, hiring personnel, developing and registering products, launching products, up to marketing and sales. During that time, I team up with the company Director of Operations to deploy new equipment for production and packing processes and participated at the executive team meetings to develop the company growth, development, and execution strategy.
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  • University Of Florida (Uf)
    Doctoral Candidate / Researcher At Soil And Water Science
    University Of Florida (Uf) Aug 2010 - Aug 2015
    Gainesville, Florida, Us
    At the end of 2009, my partner and President of Stockton sold half of his shares and invited me to sell back my shares. The offer was good and I applied to Dr. Yuncong Li, Graduate Program at the Soil and Water Department at the University of Florida. I studied the potential of polyhalite mineral as a multi-nutrient fertilizer, and published the dissertation: “The Potential of Polyhalite as Multi-Nutrient Fertilizer for Corn”. During the time I studied the doctorate I also researched and assisted different projects with laboratory, greenhouse and field activities to address nutritional deficiencies and problems related to pests and disease management on vegetables and tropical fruits. During that period of time, I had the opportunity to do an internship at J&C Tropicals and another at B&W Quality Gowers.
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  • University Of Florida (Uf)
    Internship As Research Specialist At B&W Quality Growers
    University Of Florida (Uf) Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
    Gainesville, Florida, Us
    At B&W Quality Growers I helped them to study the nutrition and pests on watercress. I determined how leafhoppers affect watercress by transmitting a disease caused by phytoplasmas and recommended a course of action. I also improved their fertilization and irrigation systems by providing methods for solving problems of clogged fertilizer in the injection lines. Finally, I enhanced the calculation of water pumps needed to properly run water flow at Florida and Tennessee farms.
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  • University Of Florida (Uf)
    Internship As Farm Advisor At J&C Tropicals
    University Of Florida (Uf) Aug 2011 - Dec 2011
    Gainesville, Florida, Us
    During this internship, I diagnosed sweet potato, mango, and avocado production systems and based on my findings developed a production plan for these crops including crop management, nutrition, and protection. Finally, I also developed a strategy to address urgent harvesting and packing issues during nights, weekends, and/or holidays.
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  • Syngenta Crop Protection
    Distribution And E-Busines Manager
    Syngenta Crop Protection Jan 2003 - Jun 2006
    Basel, Basel, Ch
    I was transferred from Brazil to Mexico to focus on the development and implementation of the sales multi-channel and E-business strategies for the country linked to the global ERP and CRM systems. My main activities focused on the development and negotiation of contracts with suppliers of raw material, transportation, and packing as well as with market research agencies. I also lead the supply chain team from procurement of technical grade materials to distribution of finished products and managed the demand forecasting process to ensure uninterrupted supply to production facilities.
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  • Syngenta Crop Protection
    Regional Crm Manager
    Syngenta Crop Protection Jan 2001 - Dec 2002
    Basel, Basel, Ch
    At this position, I developed and implemented the direct sales strategy under the CRM strategy for Latin America. I managed all CRM relationships database from raw material suppliers to farmers as end users, and developed the Latin America CRM team, ensuring all members had annually performance reviews, goal setting, and skill set improvement reviews. During the early 2000s, there was an epidemic of soybean rust in Brazil, the CRM strategy that I was leading helped to understand how this fungus was spreading throughout the country. As a result of this strategy (OTO), a pre-alert system was designed and implemented helping farmers to prevent the attack of the disease. Syngenta sales in Brazil increased dramatically that year.
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  • Syngenta Crop Protection
    Fungicides Product Manager
    Syngenta Crop Protection Jan 1999 - Dec 2000
    Basel, Basel, Ch
    As Product Manager, I conducted competitive and price analysis for the fungicides product line and determined the product line SWOT analysis. Then, I developed a 5-year product and financial strategies and action plans based on market share and trends research, and response to product line SWOT analysis according to competitive product and price research. Part of my responsibilities was also toprovide support information to the sales team for use in competitive fungicides training.
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  • Bayer Cropscience
    E-Business Manager
    Bayer Cropscience Jan 1998 - Dec 1998
    Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De
    As E-Business Manager, I designed and implemented the e-Business strategy for Bayer CropScience Mexico. Managed all e-business analytics, setting and reporting KPI benchmarks and metrics, and developed online promotional and product content enhancement.
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  • Bayer Cropscience
    Registration & Stewardship Manager
    Bayer Cropscience Jan 1997 - Dec 1997
    Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De
    I was responsible for Bayer products quality systems, product-related hazard communication, and management (Safety Data Sheets and Labels), and pesticides registrations. I also coordinated the crop protection products registration and media relationship. Reviewed and advised on marketing claims and intellectual property, such as trademarks, and elaborated educational training material about the process that takes the development of a pesticide going from molecular screening up to field trials. This material was used by Bayer and the Crop Protection industry to train pesticide registration government officers, and until day part of this material still in use.
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  • Monsanto
    Territory Sales Manager
    Monsanto May 1993 - Dec 1996
    St. Louis, Missouri, Us
    I was responsible for all sales related functions within Guatemala banana, coffee, and corn area. I developed long term and good relationships with department heads for Bayer, the largest crop protection retailers in the country. I worked with over 20 locations, visiting assigned locations regularly as Monsanto products territory expert educating and training Bayer sales team. Launched and developed RIVAL™, a granulated glyphosate formulation; and RANGER™ especial formulation of glyphosate to use in banana plantations. Served as the representative of Monsanto before the Guatemalan Association of Pesticides Importers (Agrequima) and Croplife.
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  • Chiquita
    Farm Manager
    Chiquita Feb 1991 - Apr 1993
    Étoy, Vaud, Ch
    I was responsible to meet and/or surpass KPI’s as set by the company for banana growth, production targets and adherence to the budget. Coordinated farm crew management, installations and equipment maintenance, fertilizing, irrigation, spraying, ground maintenance, pest management, harvest, and packing. Finally, I had also to review and approve all administrative paperwork for the farm crews in regards to payroll, training's, evaluations, promotions, and terminations.
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Marcel Barbier, Ph.D. Education Details

  • University Of Florida
    University Of Florida
    Soil & Water Science With Minor In Plant Health Management
  • Universidad Rafael Landívar
    Universidad Rafael Landívar
    Crop Protection In The International Commerce
  • Universidad Rafael Landívar
    Universidad Rafael Landívar
    Agronomy And Crop Science
  • Universidad Rafael Landívar
    Universidad Rafael Landívar
    Agriculture And Phithotechnist Specialized In Horticulture

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