Dr. Ruhiyyih Dyrdahl-Young is a BASF Seed Treatment Technical Field Representative for the Northern Great Plains. She serves as a technical touch point for BASF’s sales force from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. In addition to serving the sales force and the seed treatment regional account managers, she also has research and development responsibilities. She works on BASF innovations from early research compounds to life cycle management for BASF’s seed treatment products.
After completing her master’s in horticulture science, Dyrdahl-Young went to work in Syngenta’s seed care institute. Shortly after the start of her career, she was granted a fellowship to complete her Ph.D. at University of Florida in the Department of Entomology and Nematology. As a proud Gator alumni, she also completed her Master of AgriBusiness from the University of Florida’s Department of Food and Resource Economics.
Dyrdahl-Young is a member of the American Society of Horticultural Sciences, the Society of Nematology and the Organization of Tropical Nematologists.