May 18, 2012 DuPont Unveils New Local Investments in Africa and Innovative Global Food Security Index
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2012 - DuPont Chair and CEO Ellen Kullman today announced two key efforts that will support collaborative, world hunger initiatives. First, DuPont will invest more than $3 million over the next three years to help smallholder farmers in Ethiopia to achieve food security. Second, DuPont is sponsoring an innovative Global Food Security Index being developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to measure the drivers of food security across 105 countries.

May 18, 2012 Pioneer Hi-Bred to Expand Industry-Leading Agronomy Staff and Resources
DES MOINES, Iowa, May 18, 2012 - Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, is expanding its team of agronomic experts to ensure that farmers have access to even more product information and agronomic support. Twenty additional agronomy experts across the United States will be hired to further strengthen Pioneer’s agronomic services and corn and soybean product advancement efforts.

May 16, 2012 Pioneer Hi-Bred Will Sell Soybeans by Seed Count
DES MOINES, Iowa, May 16, 2012 - Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, will sell its soybean products by seed count per unit, rather than by weight, beginning in the fall of 2012 for varieties sold throughout North America for the 2013 planting season. The number of soybean seeds sold per unit by Pioneer will be 140,000.

May 30, 2012 2012 Water for Food Conference
The fourth annual global Water for Food Conference, May 30-June 1, 2012, will bring together experts from around the world to discuss how advances in science, technology and policy will help rainfed and irrigated agriculture sustainably feed an increasingly hungry and thirsty world

Jun 3, 2012 2012 Society of In Vitro Biology World Congress
The World Congress on In Vitro Biology is an international congress held every four years. The 2012 World Congress will be held from Sunday, June 3 – Thursday, June 7, 2012 in Bellevue, Washington.

Jun 3, 2012 67th Annual Meeting of the North Central Branch of the Entomological Society
The 67th annual meeting of the North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America will be held June 3-6, 2012 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lincoln, NE.