Keith Reding, Ph.D.

Expert Bio

I grew up in southeast Arkansas and worked on farms every summer.  My passion for agriculture led to earning a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Georgia studying the interaction of soil bacteria with plants.  After a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota, I worked as a biotechnologist at USDA.  At Monsanto, I’ve worked as a Regulatory Affairs Manager for 17 years on various corn, cotton, potato, alfalfa, and sugar beet products. I am currently the USDA Compliance Strategy Lead at Bayer.