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DuPont Pioneer not expecting seed issues related to wet weather

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The business director at DuPont Pioneer is not anticipating any seed issues resulting from wet weather in parts of the Corn Belt.

Patrick Yockey says the company grows products across a number of locations.

“That’s part of our risk-management strategy to help ensure that we don’t have those critical shortages.”

He tells Brownfield DuPont Pioneer also produces over what they intend to sell each year.

“That’s part of the risk-management equation.  We intend going into the year (to have) that product coming back to our plants and we use that the following year.”

DuPont Pioneer has a large footprint in the industry, and Yockey says smaller companies may face seed shortages going forward.

“The risk is there.  Certainly they don’t have the broad network.  But I have not seen any information that would lead us to believe that those issues are out there.”

Yockey says DuPont Pioneer anticipates having a complete supply of corn and soybean products next year and doesn’t expect higher costs related to weather this growing season.

 

 

 

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