Kevin Casey This is Me

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1. 1. Golfdom - Syngenta's Science Project

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   Published on: 6/18/2004   Last Visited: 6/29/2004

   Kevin Casey, clad in a white lab coat, stands inside the plant production area at Syngenta Professional Products' Vero Beach (Fla.) Research Center (VBRC). The dusty area, laden with intricate machinery, resembles a huge garage. Because the area is open to the outside, there's no respite from the heat. Casey, whose face contains speckles of sweat, will attest to that.
   
   Still, Casey is upbeat on this early June day as he speaks about his job - blending and pasteurizing soil to use in tests for turf and ornamentals - to a group of visitors at the VBRC. Casey, a research and development assistant on Syngenta's R&D technical support team, creates soil mixtures to mimic certain soil conditions from different regions of the United States and the world.
   
   Casey flips the "on" switch of the elaborate mixing machine, and it drones loudly while blending batches of soil and sand. Casey grabs a hand of dirt from a table in front of him and runs the rich, dark blend through his hand. "This is a really nice soil to work with," he says of the muck soil, used to grow sugar cane.