About Us - Your Berries & Grapes Team
Berries & Grapes is an interactive online community where berry and grape farmers can communicate, learn, network and build relationships. Like our sponsor, Bayer CropScience, Berries & Grapes believes in honesty, integrity and trust. Those values aren’t just what we believe in. They’re a major part of the online environment we strive to create.
Meet the Berries & Grapes Moderators
Meet David Kikkert, Karen Lewis, and Jen Mullen with Bayer CropScience. They are the moderators at berriesgrapes.ca. They facilitate information exchange between users, find answers to your questions, and help keep the site pumped up with relevant news and information from Canada and around the globe.
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David Kikkert
Title: Portfolio Manager, Horticulture
Email: david.kikkert@bayercropscience.com
Phone: 519 767 3888
David manages the growing lineup of horticulture brands for Bayer CropScience in Canada, including: Admire®, Decis®, Flint®, Movento®, Reason®, Scala® and Titan™. He also manages the
Hot Potatoes® Rewards Program for Bayer CropScience – the first and best rewards program for vegetable, fruit and potato growers across Canada.
David is actively involved in the family’s farming operation in the Niagara Region of Ontario, and has an agricultural business degree from the University of Guelph.
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Karen Lewis
Title: Berries & Grapes Community Moderator
Email: karen.lewis@adfarmonline.com
Phone: 905 873 7834
Karen moderates the Berries & Grapes Community and works to keep the site fresh with new content. Having spent more than a decade working in marketing communications for the agriculture and agri-food industry, Karen uses her extensive network to unearth stories to update the site with relevant and timely information.
Karen is no stranger to strawberry and raspberry production – she spent much of her youth on her family’s U-pick farm just north of Toronto, Ontario. She is a graduate of Ryerson University’s School of Journalism and Humber College’s Public Relations post-graduate program.
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Jen Mullen
Title: Technical Support Representative, Horticulture
Email: jen.mullen@bayercropscience.com
Phone: 519 767 3882
After several summers in the field as a crop scout and research technician in south western Ontario, Jen has brought her experience indoors as one of two experts for the Bayer CropScience product support centre. Her field work and plant biology degree from the University of Guelph arm her with ideas, resources and connections to support grower and industry questions.