[Pollinator] Vestaron Announces Partnership with Bee Friendly Farming

Thu Apr 8 12:44:23 PDT 2021

Vestaron Announces Partnership with Bee Friendly Farming

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Mar 24, 2021, 14:00 ET

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., March 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vestaron, a
leader in the evolution of agricultural environmental science, is proud to
announce a collaboration with Bee Friendly Farming® (BFF). This partnership
represents the two groups' shared mission to promote and protect honey bees
and their vital role as agricultural pollinators.

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*In this three-year commitment, Vestaron will donate $30,000 to Bee
Friendly Farming.*

The BFF program enables farmers to become Bee Friendly Farming Certified by
implementing practices that promote, protect and preserve bee health. This
includes offering nutrition and habitat for bees and implementing bee-safe
integrated pest management (IPM) strategies.

With revolutionary peptide-empowered technology, Vestaron innovations work
in collaboration with nature to target invasive pests while being soft on
bees, farm workers, mammals, fish and natural enemies of pests.

"Bee Friendly Farming is a natural partner for us at Vestaron because we
share the priorities of working collaboratively with farmers to implement
practices and technology that keep our bee populations healthy," says Ben
Cicora, SVP sales and marketing at Vestaron. "We know that farmers trust
and respect the work of Bee Friendly Farming and the Pollinator Partnership
in this space and look forward to helping them grow and share their
mission."

In this three-year commitment, Vestaron will donate $30,000 to Bee Friendly
Farming and support the program through a variety of promotional
initiatives. Cicora has also been nominated to serve on the North American
Pollinator Protection Campaign's Pesticide Education Task Force.

"The Bee Friendly Farming program that Pollinator Partnership developed has
grown to cover more than 65,000 certified acres of farmland in the US
and Canada in 2020 alone," says Laurie Davies Adams, president and CEO of
Pollinator Partnership. "That growth is thanks in large part to our close
collaboration with growers and the dedicated sponsors like Vestaron who
understand the importance of working with farmers to protect bee health."

Vestaron has developed a proprietary platform for the optimization,
production and delivery of peptide-based crop protection. Leading with Spear
®, a biopesticide with a novel mode of action, Vestaron is gaining market
share in crops like almonds and pistachios that are strongly dependent on
bees as pollinators.

To learn more about Vestaron's commitment to honey bee health and about
this partnership, visit vestaron.com/beefriendly
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*About Vestaron*Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop
protection. We are committed to providing growers with novel, effective
chemistries that address proven targets. Our peptides overcome existing
resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers,
beneficials and the environment. Vestaron has earned global recognition for
its work, including the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for novel
biocontrol solutions, a 2020 THRIVE Top 50 Growth-Stage honoree, and the
prestigious Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry
Institute in 2020.

www.vestaron.com
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Spear® is a registered trademark of Vestaron Corporation.

*About Bee Friendly Farming*Bee Friendly Farming® is a farm certification
program dedicated to providing farmers science-based guidelines to provide
a healthy habitat for managed and native pollinators on their operations.
Since 2013, the program has certified over 800 farms across North
America through an online self-certification. Bee Friendly Farming is an
initiative of Pollinator Partnership, the world's largest non-profit
dedicated exclusively to the protection and promotion of pollinators and
their ecosystems. For more information about Pollinator Partnership and Bee
Friendly Farming, visit pollinator.org/bff
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 or Bee Friendly Farming on Facebook
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CONTACTS:
Ben Cicora, SVP Sales & Marketing • (970) 443.9220 • bcicora at vestaron.com
Sherry Mitchell, Director of Marketing • (919) 609.6704 •
smitchell at vestaron.com

SOURCE Vestaron Corporation

Isaac Lisle

Database and Systems Manager

Pollinator Partnership

475 Sansome St., 17th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

e: isaac at pollinator.org

o: 415-362-1137

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