Product Overview - Worldwide

Each year, alfalfa researchers harvest more than 30,000 test plots worldwide to measure product and parental performance in various environments. Technology traits are also available to help protect against insect pressures. Contact your local Pioneer sales representative to help you select the best varieties for your operation.

Pioneer is building a solid pipeline of future canola products in hybrid packages. These products will bring farmers improvements of yields and traits. To assure this steady flow of products, Pioneer researchers plant more than 65,000 test plots each year in seven countries. With either the Roundup Ready gene or Clearfield trait, both Pioneer® brand canola hybrids and varieties offer you consistent yields, harvestability, agronomic traits and herbicide management options. Your local sales professional can help you select the right hybrid or variety for your operation.

Pioneer offers corn growers the industry's broadest lineup, with hundreds of unique and different Pioneer® brand hybrids. Localized research results in products with top yield potential and necessary agronomic traits for most growing conditions. In many countries, technology traits are also available to help protect against insect and weed pressure. Your Pioneer sales professional can help you select the right hybrids for your farming operation.

DuPont offers a complete line of crop protection products for row crops, cereals, specialty crops, fruits and vegetables. No two fields are alike and one size doesn't fit all. That's why DuPont offers a broad portfolio of products to meet your needs on the land you farm and the way you farm it.

Pioneer offers inoculants for corn and alfalfa silage, alfalfa hay, and high moisture grain. With a library of more than 4,000 strains of bacteria, Pioneer microbial researchers develop inoculants with carefully selected, unique, patented strains of bacteria. Visit your Pioneer professional about the benefits of using Pioneer® brand inoculants to help you get more from every acre you feed to your animals.

Mustard is an important crop for India's economy. PHI Seeds Ltd., provides hybrids to farmers with many desirable traits, including high yielding and high oil percentages. PHI Seeds Ltd., tests mustard hybrids every year to improve them and help them adapt to more growing conditions.

Pearl millet is a crop with a long history in parts of Africa, India, and Pakistan. In fact, pearl millet is a staple food product. PHI Seeds Ltd., offers pearl millet varieties for farmers with different growing needs. For example, PHI Seeds Ltd., in India offer varieties suitable for both summer and rainy seasons in maturity ranges from 75 - 85 days.

Rice is an important food crop. It occupies 44 million hectares in India alone. With a strong research base, Pioneer is able to produce and offer a number of suitable hybrids designed to meet a diversity of growing challenges. Hybrids designed for particular growing conditions on irrigated land could boost annual rice production by 10-15 million metric tonnes.

Pioneer offers sorghum hybrids in red, yellow, and bronze, with seed treatment options to meet your needs. Localized products offer top yield potential, drought tolerance and the industry's only proprietary genetics specific to your agronomic growing conditions. They also withstand tough pest and disease challenges.

Experience a powerful new generation of Pioneer® brand soybeans. Pioneer has introduced more than 60 new varieties over the last three years providing:

• outstanding yields
• strong emergence
• disease, pest and herbicide resistance
• solid standability
• smooth harvesting

Innovative packaging options, such as PROBulk® systems and PROBOX® containers, are available in some areas and offer improved handling convenience.

At Pioneer, developing sunflower hybrids with stable yield performance is a key goal. Researchers worldwide are dramatically increasing the number of hybrid combinations tested for yield. Each year, more than 130,000 test plots are planted for yield potential. Improving agronomic traits such as emergence, root and stalk strength, seedling vigor, and fast drydown also are emphasized. Talk to your local Pioneer sales professional about the top sunflower hybrids and market opportunities in your area.

With more than 12 soft red winter and soft white winter varieties, Pioneer® brand wheat offer growers the convenience of bagged wheat with the agronomic package that fit their needs. An extensive testing network is used in North American and Europe, as more than 50,000 yield plots are planted each year. In Europe, the focus is on the development of varieties that meet the rigorous performance and end-use qualities of key target markets. With an eye on the future, hybrid development will provide a vehicle for delivering value-added traits to the marketplace.