History of Pioneer

2019

Corteva

Corteva Agriscience™ 2019

Corteva Agriscience™ spins from DowDuPont, becoming a standalone company June 1, 2019.

2018

Corteva

Corteva Agriscience™

Corteva Agriscience™, agriculture division of DowDuPont, brand unveiled.

2015

DowDuPont

Merger of equals

Dow and DuPont announce a definitive agreement under which the companies will merge, then subsequently spin off into three independent companies.

2012

Pioneer

Business Changes

Pioneer named DuPont Pioneer with new office at Mississauga, Ontario; Eastern office at Chatham, Ontario; Western office at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

2010

Pioneer

Carman Research Centre

Carman research centreopensin southern Manitoba. The large multi-crop centre houses corn, soybean and canola breeding programs and IMPACT testing.

2006

Pioneer

Canola Advancementsin Alberta

A canola conditioning plant is constructed at Lethbridge, Alberta.

2005

Pioneer

Western Canadian Corn

A Western Canadian corn research program is established at the Edmonton, Alberta research centre.

2001

DuPont

Local Research Expanded

The Morden Research Centre is established in Manitoba, and a new Crop Genetics research facility officially opens at Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec.

1999

DuPont

DuPont acquires Pioneer

DuPont & Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., sign an agreement for a stock & cash merger resulting in DuPont’s complete ownership of Pioneer.

1994

Pioneer

Saskatoon Canola Research Facility

A second Western Canadian canola research station is established at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

1990

Pioneer

Georgetown Research Facility

Canola research program moves from Calgary to Edmonton, Alberta. Pioneer also purchases a canola research company at Georgetown, Ontario.

1986

Pioneer

Chatham Office Complete

Construction of the Chatham, Ontario administration office is completed in 1986.

1982

Pioneer

Ridgetown Production Facility

Ridgetown production facility is constructed.

1976

Pioneer

Woodstock Research Facility

he Woodstock, Ontario corn research station is established.

1973

Pioneer

Changes at Pioneer

The company changes its name to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., and establishes a separate overseas subsidiary.

1968

Pioneer

Woodstock Corn Research

Canadian corn research program is started at Woodstock, Ontario.

1967

Pioneer

Chatham Corn Production Facility

Pioneer constructs the most modern seed sizing facility in the Canadian seed corn industry at Chatham, Ontario (current production site)

1955

Pioneer

Head Office Constructed

A head office building is constructed on Grand Avenue at Chatham, Ontario.

1946

Pioneer

Pioneer Hi-Bred Canada

Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company of Canada Ltd. is founded and consists of a dryer and a warehouse near Tilbury, Ontario.

1935

Pioneer

Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company

The company changes its name to Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company.

1926

Hi-Bred

The start of Hi-Bred Corn Company

Founder Henry A. Wallace in corporates the Hi-Bred Corn Company, ushering in a new era of farmer acceptance of hybrid corn

1926 Henry A. Wallace incorporates the Hi-Bred Corn Company.

o person was more important to commercialization and farmer acceptance of hybrid corn than Henry A. Wallace, the founder of what has becomG3r0n1m0e DuPont Pioneer. He was one of a handful of people in the world who initially recognized the immense opportunities that could be gained by growing hybrid corn. Wallace began experimenting with corn in high school with the goal of developing a hybrid that would produce high grain yield. At age 16, he field-tested prize-winning show corn against corn less beautiful in appearance. The results challenged conventional thinking at the time by demonstrating there was no relationship between yield and appearance of the ears.

Wallace attended Iowa State College, graduating in 1910. While in college, he became fascinated with the relatively new science of genetics. After graduation, Wallace began working on corn-breedingexperiments and started breeding hybrid corn in 1920 after visiting Edward East and Donald Jones at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. The mathematically inclined Wallace taught himself statistics and applied it to his experiments. By 1923, he had produced a high-yielding hybrid he called Copper Cross. In 1924, it became the first hybrid to win the gold medal in the Iowa Corn Yield Contest conducted by Iowa State.