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The Pioneer Corn Innovation Pipeline
It starts with YOU
Pioneer® corn hybrids are built to help your farm succeed—from idea to field performance. Leveraging one of the world’s largest germplasm libraries and close collaboration between Corteva Agriscience researchers and Pioneer field teams, we turn your local insights into traits and hybrids that anticipate tomorrow’s challenges, delivering high-performing corn seed for your acres today and tomorrow.
- Hybrid Traits
- Improved Development
- Local Products
- Created for the Field
- The Future of Corn
Designed to Address Field-Level Issues
Improved Trait Development
Genetic gain delivered faster than ever before.
Traits Start as an Idea
Scientists design advanced traits that help protect crops from yield-limiting pressures, strengthen overall agronomics, and improve product quality. Each trait is developed to support consistent performance across a wide range of environments.
Cutting-edge Development
Native traits, biotechnology, and modern breeding tools are combined to create new traits that are thoroughly tested in our elite genetics. This integrated approach allows us to deliver products with consistent strength and reliable, high-level performance.
A Leap Forward in Speed
Predictive breeding tools let farmers access top products sooner. We now advance new hybrids about a third faster than a decade ago, supported by an eight-fold increase in testing. This expansion results in stronger yields and agronomically proven hybrids.
Local Product Development
Products made for your fields
Our breeders live and work in the local communities where the research takes place with direct access to the plants being bred, resulting in seed that is driven by the real-world conditions for a farmer’s particular area.
Research & Development Created,
Field Perfected
Feedback from the field guarantees that only the strongest products are advanced to your fields.
Pioneer seed is among the most rigorously tested on the market. Seed products undergo multiple years of local field testing before they make it into a Pioneer bag, including extensive testing in IMPACT™ trials strategically located throughout the U.S. This ensures products perform consistently year after year.
By the end of our product development process, less than .01 percent earn the right to be included in a Pioneer seed bag.
Pioneer manages one of the largest on-farm testing programs in the industry, including an annual average of more than 17,500 on-farm trials.
2,200+ sales reps and over 160 agronomists collaborate with growers each season to help them achieve success.
Growing the Future of Corn
What's next happens here
We’re preparing to launch more traits this decade than the past 30 years combined. These solutions will bring new capabilities to US farmers that are not available today, and are built to aid farmers in managing some of the key challenges facing their crops annually. These future innovations include:
- New 3rd Generation Insect Protection
- Reduced-stature Corn
- Yield and Yield Stability Trait
- Multi-disease Resistance Trait
The Pioneer® corn portfolio today is comprised of elite genetics, advanced biotech trait options and best-in-class seed treatments. Future product innovations will build on our solid foundation of delivering a premium product performance through exclusive, tailored genetics and trait packages.
The Pioneer® corn portfolio today is comprised of elite genetics, advanced biotech trait options and best-in-class seed treatments. Future product innovations will build on our solid foundation of delivering a premium product performance through exclusive, tailored genetics and trait packages.
