AutoFarm.

AutoFarm, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of GPS precision control systems for agricultural applications, hires Daryl Patten as head of North American sales. Patten brings more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience to AutoFarm. Most recently, he served as the general marketing manager for AGCO's $250-million Application Equipment Division. Before joining AGCO, Patten held leadership roles in service, sales and marketing over a 13-year period with Melroe Company, a division of Ingersoll-Rand.