The company became the first to offer farmer-dealers a full lineup of forage seed and hybrid seed corn. By the mid-1960s, the farmer-dealer network had grown to over 500. After 56 years as ...

For the first time in the history of the seed corn industry, two companies control 71% of sales. “A few acquisitions by DuPont this spring puts them neck and neck with Monsanto with regard to ...

Over the years that followed, Leonard’s life was dedicated to the development of stress-tolerant corn hybrids, providing quality seed to farmers. Leonard’s son, Tom, earned his doctorate from Iowa ...

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Origin Agritech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SEED) (the "Company" or "Origin"), a leading Chinese agricultural technology company, today announced a major breakthrough in corn production technology. Building on ...

Howard Heim founded the Heim Hybrid Seed Corn Company around 1937 near Lake City, about a decade after Iowa native Henry A. Wallace founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company, which became Pioneer Hi-Bred.

Moscow | Reuters — The Russian agricultural watchdog has banned imports of sunflower and corn seeds from companies in Chile, France, Hungary, and Turkey, it said on Thursday, in line with Moscow’s ...

Planting populations on corn have increased by nearly 50% over the last 30 years. This has been driven by research which shows that higher population increases yields. Seed companies have embraced ...