Each week, Pioneer will share news stories of interest to your audience.
News Briefs
DuPont Pioneer Growers Win Nine National Titles in 2014 National Sorghum Producers Yield Contest - Growers planting Pioneer® brand sorghum hybrids recently won three of seven first-place finishes and nine of the 21 national categories in the 2014 National Sorghum Producers (NSP) Yield and Management Contest. Growers using Pioneer® 84G62 brand sorghum won five of the nine national titles, and 33 of 81 state titles were won using Pioneer® brand sorghum hybrids. Learn more in the news release, or at the NSP page at Pioneer.com.DuPont Pioneer Growers Win Nine National and 238 State NCGA Yield Contest Titles in 2014 DuPont Pioneer congratulates the winners of nine national and 238 state titles in the NCGA 2014 yield contest who used Pioneer brand seed to achieve top yields. Growers in Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Texas and Virginia using seven different Pioneer brand genetic platforms placed in the six national categories in the 2014 contest. Frequent winner David Hula of Charles City, Virginia achieved a staggering 476 bushels per acre using Pioneer P1794VYHR brand corn on his 2014 contest plot. Learn more in the news release, or on the NCGA results page at Pioneer.com.
DuPont Pioneer Announces 2015 Corn and Soybean Product Lines - Pioneer recently announced the highlights of the 2015 corn and soybean product lines, which will include important new traits and maturities to help growers succeed in the coming season. Learn more in the corn news release and the soybean news release. For audio files, videos and other materials, visit the Pioneer Media Resource 2015 corn and soybean folders.
Pioneer in the News
DuPont Pioneer Discusses Big Data, Grower Control in Agri-Pulse - Agri-Pulse recently published an opinion piece authored by DuPont Pioneer President Paul Schickler encouraging the agriculture industry to establish open data exchange architecture that allows a grower to share data, on their terms and in a secure manner, with whatever technology providers they choose. Read the article: Keeping Farmers in the Driver's Seat with their Farm Data
Plenish® Oil to be Used by All Food Vendors at the Pennsylvania Farm Show The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article noting the use of Plenish® oil in all food vendor offerings at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in 2015. The article put the spotlight on the health and taste benefits for consumers when their favorite fair foods are cooked in Plenish high oleic soybean oil. Learn more in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pioneer in the Field
Pioneer will be present at many trade shows in 2015. Here are a few upcoming shows where you can meet and greet the Pioneer team, and hear the latest news.
American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention
San Diego, California
January 9-14
http://annualconvention.fb.org/
Pennsylvania Farm Show
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
January 10-17, 2015
http://www.farmshow.state.pa.us/
Commodity Classic 2015
Phoenix, Arizona
February 26-28, 2015
http://www.commodityclassic.com/home
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