Beck’s Hybrids cuts ribbon on former Syngenta plant

Family-owned company becomes facility’s 5th owner

  • Beck’s Hybrids President Scott Beck (center) prepares to cut the ribbon on the company’s newest seed corn facility, the former Syngenta plant near Phillips, on Friday. With him are his father, Sonny, the company’s CEO, as well as other Beck’s officials and representatives of various community organizations.
    Beck’s Hybrids President Scott Beck (center) prepares to cut the ribbon on the company’s newest seed corn facility, the former Syngenta plant near Phillips, on Friday. With him are his father, Sonny, the company’s CEO, as well as other Beck’s officials and representatives of various community organizations.

    Beck’s Hybrids, a family-owned Indiana seed company, celebrated its acquisition of the former Syngenta seed corn plant near Phillips with a luncheon and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday. In attendance were five generations of the Beck family, as well as numerous local officials, media and employees of the company. The event had been planned for outdoors at the facility located along Highway …