The Pioneer GrowingPoint® website - Another Pioneer Advantage

Agronomy Tools | Products | Online Account Management | Marketing | Weather | Livestock and Nutrition

The agronomy section in GrowingPoint website delivers valuable, timely and relevant information that has been assembled by all of the agronomic resources that make up the Pioneer agronomy network. Here you’ll have access to local agronomic information that helps you farm more profitably as well as a number of exclusive resources that can help you make decisions and provide a local perspective on crop production. Here’s a few examples of the resources available here:

• Online Publications
  Scanning Your Fields® e-pub is written by your local Pioneer account manager. It’s designed to keep you ahead of pest and disease pressures, provide timely management suggestions and contains images and links to other resources that provide more in-depth information. It’s delivered throughout the growing season to your Email in-box.
  
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• Walking Your Fields® newsletter is also available on the GrowingPoint website. Because this is delivered online, you’ll gain faster access to the information you need to react to potential pest and disease pressures. This publication contains timely crop management tips for your local area throughout the growing season. Written by your local Pioneer account manager, it’s delivered to your email in-box. Past issues are also archived for quick reference.
  
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• Other Agronomic Resources
  Agronomy Search -- The AgronomyLink® resource center is a tool that lets you search the GrowingPoint website by crop, category or keywords. Quickly find articles, photos and studies from Pioneer and public sources on a host of crop management topics. It’s a fast way for you to find answers related to crop production agriculture.
  
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  Pest and Disease Guides -- You’ll also find a reference guide to the most common corn and soybean pests and diseases. These guides include descriptions and identification of pests and diseases, discusses lifecycles and provides management suggestions.
  
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  Agronomy Library -- Access an agronomic library that contains hundreds of articles written by Pioneer research scientists and other crop experts. Many of these articles report research results that address specific crop production practices or problems. Growers can use this information to make better decisions when managing their crops. In addition, these articles are archived so you can reference whenever crop management issues arise.
  
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  Videos -- Throughout the growing season Pioneer experts deliver timely crop management videos that cover a number of topics for your local area and help keep you ahead of pest and disease pressures.
  
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Having access to the latest product information can help you make better, more well-informed decisions.

• Finding product information
  Users can search Pioneer® brand products based on maturity, technology trait or end-use segment. After you’ve narrowed the search, you can start organizing products by trait scores. It takes only a single mouse click to find products with the most favorable score in the selected trait category.
  
  
• Product Profiles
  Customers can drill down to see more information in the product profile sheet. Product profiles are based on environment, technology need, customer attributes such as planting date and end use, and farm management attribute such as tillage, crop history and yield level for your local area. Each profile is based on historical observations and analysis by local Pioneer experts.
  
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• Yield data
  A key part of every hybrid decision is reviewing performance data and seeing how a product stacks up to the competition. GrowingPoint delivers several tools to help you make decisions including National, regional and area performance data.
  
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You can securely manage their Pioneer account information on the GrowingPoint website. Here you can manage your seed related finances, view transactions

View all of your Pioneer brand product purchases for the current and past year. You can also review your Pioneer product accounts and Deferred Payment Loan balances, current balances, principal balance, last payment made and current interest rate.

• Pay Online
  Schedule Deferred Payment Loan payments ahead of the payoff date to reducing last-minute payment hassles. No need to worry about postage, mail delivery dates or writing a check.
  
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• Electronic Signature
  Customers can also use the GrowingPoint website to electronically sign important paperwork.
  
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The GrowingPoint website offers comprehensive marketing news and information as well as expert commentary. Pioneer customers can keep up-to-date on market trends, projections and analyses from a panel of market experts. This information is updated on a weekly basis.

Users can also access historical prices from more than 2,600 cash grain markets throughout North America which includes -- Cash grain bids with basis tracking, Future quotes for all major commodity exchanges with overnight trading and options reporting and charting tools for commodity market analysis. Daily opening & closing market commentary is also available.

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The GrowingPoint website also features crop production-focused weather features, such as long range forecasts, and hour by hour forecasts which include temperature and wind-speed, local weather includes wind direction, wind chill, humidity, dew point and barometer readings. Seven day forecast and high resolution radar weather.

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Customers can get advice from Pioneer nutritional experts. Here you’ll find material that focuses on the results of the latest university and Pioneer studies, dairy management issues and timely, localized grain and forage management.

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