The individuals and organizations that form Synergy are uniquely positioned to leverage their experience and resource capabilities for the commercial production of biomaterials. Synergy combines industry-leading innovators in production agriculture, a pace-setting regional cooperative, a leading private research facility, and ready access to one of the world's preeminent research institutions, Cornell University.

Dairy:

• Broughton Farm Operations is a fifth generation dairy farm located near Silver Springs, New York. This multi-family business milks 1,800 Holsteins and farms over 3,500 acres in Wyoming County.
• Noblehurst Farms operates a 1,500 cow dairy farm with over 2,000 acres of corn, alfalfa and wheat ground near Linwood, NY. This seventh generation family business also has stake in a commodity purchasing business that sources farm inputs throughout the Northeast, and owns Linwood Management Group, a company that provides farm management services to dairies in New York.
• Southview Farms has been in business since 1964 and currently milks 1,400 cows near the town of Castile in Wyoming County, NY. Additionally, this business farms over 2,000 acres of corn and alfalfa.

• Gary Swede Farms of Pavilion, NY is a cash crop operation that grows over 3,000 acres of sweet corn, peas, dry beans, and forages. They provide custom harvesting of sweet corn for a processing vegetables business and forages for local dairy farms.
• L-Brooke Farms, based in Byron, NY, is a family-owned processing vegetable and grain farm with over 9,000 acres farmed throughout western New York. Production consists primarily of sweet corn, peas, red beets, and carrots for the frozen food market, as well as corn, wheat, soybeans, and forage for local dairy operations.
• R.L. Jeffres & Sons is a large cash crop operation based in Wyoming, NY. This fifth generation business currently manages approximately 9,00 acres of cropland; growing feed for dairies, vegetables and organic crops. R.L. Jeffres & Sons also owns Jeffres Ag Service, a crop inputs business, Navillus Irrigation, an irrigation equipment and food waste disposal business, as well as End of the Road, a retail restaurant business.

• Craig Buckhout is a principal in Agri-Invest, a joint venture between Rockbridge Investment Management and Dairylea that provides investment management services for the financial security of agribusinesses and their employees.
• Tom Morris is the President of Thomas D. Morris, one of the largest independently owned companies providing research-grade animals to the bio-medical community. TDM has earned full accreditation from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC).