The Orion Companies (TOC) would like to welcome Trent Brusseau to the team as the Director of Western IVM and R&P Sales effective September 1st. In this new role, Trent will manage the territory of ND down to TX and over to the west coast along with the western sales team currently in place. The addition of Trent to TOC sales team will provide further strategic direction to the western region sales team and added experience in the IVM and R&P markets.
Trent’s interest in land management started when he was growing up in SW North Dakota on his family farm where they grew wheat, barley, oats and raised cattle. Trent has 32 years of experience being a chemical manufacturer rep for two main companies, Syngenta and Corteva Agriscience. Trent understands change is constant and should be embraced in order to learn from it and grow. Trent began his career with Syngenta Crop Protection in Iowa and the PNW. The past 16 years, Trent has been with Corteva Agriscience, along with its legacy company Dow AgroScience, in the intermountain states/PNW. Over the last 32 years Trent has had the privilege to work in many markets such as range & pasture/land management, cereals, alfalfa, potatoes, sugar beets, corn, mint and many seed crops.
Trent has served on many industry boards and most recently was honored to be part of the Washington Vegetation Management Association and the Montana State Noxious Weed Trust Fund. During his time with Corteva Agriscience, Trent had the privilage of assisting in many habitat improvement projects with the United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, State DOTs, County Weed Districts, ag retailers and ranchers.
Trent’s enjoys spending time with his wife working with the red angus cattle and Boer goats they raise. In the fall he enjoys hunting elk, mule deer and antelope and in the winter he enjoys down hill skiing and snowmobileing. Trent has B.S. in Agronomy from Montana State University along with A.A. in Wildlife Management from North Dakota State Univeristy-Bottineau. Trent resides in SW Idaho with his wife and they have two daughters that just graduated from college and are starting their professional careers.
At TOC, we are driving our vision of expanding operations and representation in the Vegetation Management, Range & Pasture, Forestry Management and Agriculture segments. Our focus, growth and business agility continue to make TOC an employer of choice in the industry. We continue to enhance our digital, custom blending, packaging and warehousing capabilities to support the needs of our customers. To support the growing business, we will continue to create new partnerships and add key support roles as necessary to further enhance our industry status as a sustainable, innovative solutions provider.
JR Gerst
President, The Orion Companies
Trent Brusseau, Director of Western IVM and R&P Sales
tbrusseau@theorioncompanies.us
208-318-8877