Producer
Corteva Agriscience (spun from DowDuPont 2019)
Corteva Agriscience (Indianapolis, Indiana; NYSE: CTVA; spun off from DowDuPont in 2019; ~$17B+ revenue) is the world's largest publicly traded pure-play agriculture company by revenue, focused on seeds and crop protection. Corteva produces generic atrazine formulations as part of its broad corn herbicide portfolio — primarily as combination products (atrazine + other active ingredients) rather than standalone technical grade. Corteva's Enlist® weed control system targets US corn growers with proprietary herbicide-tolerant trait technology, but the company also maintains conventional atrazine-based products for growers not using Enlist traits. Corteva was formed from the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont in 2017 followed by a three-way split into DowDuPont / Dow / Corteva in 2019. Corteva controls heritage Pioneer Hi-Bred seed germplasm and Dow AgroSciences crop protection chemistry.
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What they make
6 inputs Corteva Agriscience (spun from DowDuPont 2019) supplies
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agricultural
Corn Hybrid Parental Inbred Lines →
agricultural
Corn Hybrid Parental Inbred Lines →
chemical
Pesticides and fungicides (fresh produce) →
chemical
Seed Treatment Fungicide Active Ingredients →
chemical
Fungicides (Coffee Leaf Rust Control) →
chemical
Atrazine Technical Herbicide →
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Where they make it
8 facilities
Corteva Agriscience Johnston Iowa R&D Campus →
USIowa · r_and_d
Corteva Agriscience Johnston Iowa R&D Campus (Johnston IA; ~3,500 employees; primary Corteva crop protection and seed discovery campus; formerly Pioneer Hi-Bred International HQ before DuPont acquisition in 1999). Spinetoram (Delegate) and spinosad (Entrust) — the naturalyte insecticide class derived from soil bacteria Saccharopolyspora spinosa fermentation — were developed and commercialized from this campus, building on DowAgro Sciences' original spinosyn discovery program. Spinetoram/Delegate is the #1 insecticide for western flower thrips and fruit flies in fresh produce globally. Source: https://www.corteva.com/who-we-are/locations.html
Corteva Global Seed Business Center — Johnston, Iowa →
USIowa, USA · headquarters-research
Global HQ for Corteva's seed business and Pioneer brand. ~3,000 employees. Nine seed production and research facilities across Iowa. Pioneer celebrated centennial April 2026. Corteva announced October 2025 seed spinoff ('SpinCo') as independent public company.
Corteva Johnston Iowa Research Campus →
USIowa · r_and_d
Corteva's Johnston, Iowa research campus is the headquarters for Corteva's seed and crop protection research, including fungicide active ingredient discovery and seed treatment development. This is where Lumisena (oxathiapiprolin) was developed and where Corteva's integrated seed + seed treatment pipeline is managed. The Johnston campus employs ~2,000 researchers. Source: https://www.corteva.com/who-we-are/our-company/locations.html
Corteva La Porte Chemical Manufacturing (Texas) →
USTexas · manufacturing
Corteva's La Porte, Texas chemical manufacturing facility (on the Houston Ship Channel) is a primary US production site for Corteva crop protection active ingredients, including oxathiapiprolin (Lumisena) and other fungicide compounds. The site was originally a Dow Chemical facility and has been part of Corteva since the 2019 DowDuPont spinoff. La Porte's Ship Channel location enables bulk chemical imports and exports. Source: https://www.corteva.com/who-we-are/our-company/locations.html
Corteva La Porte Texas AI Plant →
USTexas · manufacturing
Corteva (formerly DowDuPont) AI manufacturing facility at La Porte, Texas on the Houston Ship Channel. Produces oxathiapiprolin (Zorvec — novel oomycide) and selected SDHI fungicide intermediates. La Porte is a DuPont legacy manufacturing site for specialty chemistry. Corteva's US crop protection manufacturing footprint is anchored here and at Johnston, Iowa. Source: https://www.corteva.com/who-we-are/global-locations.html
Pioneer Hi-Bred / Corteva Johnston Iowa R&D Campus →
USIowa · lab
Corteva Agriscience / Pioneer Hi-Bred primary R&D campus in Johnston, Iowa (northwest of Des Moines). Founded by Henry A. Wallace in 1926 as the original Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company headquarters. The Johnston campus houses Pioneer's proprietary corn germplasm library — one of the most valuable private collections of plant genetics in the world. The Johnston germplasm bank contains hundreds of thousands of proprietary inbred lines developed over nearly a century of breeding. This facility was the target of the 2011-2013 industrial espionage case (US v. Ye Jian) in which a Chinese national was arrested in Iowa fields stealing Pioneer inbred corn plants by their roots. The Johnston campus is under physical security with cameras, guards, and perimeter fencing due to the germplasm library's value as trade secret IP. Source: Corteva Agriscience 2024 Annual Report; https://www.corteva.com/our-impact/innovation/research.html
Pioneer Hybrid Corn Seed Production Region (Iowa / Illinois / Indiana) →
USIowa / Illinois / Indiana · farm
Pioneer (Corteva) primary hybrid corn seed production zone across the US Corn Belt — Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. Hybrid corn seed is produced by planting male (pollen donor) and female (detasseled mother) inbred parent lines in adjacent rows in isolation fields, typically 6-10 miles from any commercial corn to prevent genetic contamination. The female rows are detasseled (male flowers removed) by crews of seasonal workers to prevent self-pollination; pollen from the male rows then fertilizes the female rows, producing hybrid seed. Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana are the dominant seed production states because: (1) commercial corn grows well in these states, providing the production infrastructure; (2) isolation distances can be maintained in the fragmented field geography; (3) Corteva's Johnston IA headquarters enables logistics management. Pioneer contracts approximately 3,500 farmer-growers across the Corn Belt to produce hybrid seed each season. The same Iowa fields that produce Pioneer commercial seed contain some of the world's highest-value agricultural IP — rows of proprietary inbred parent lines worth far more per plant than any commodity crop. Source: USDA NASS Crop Production Survey 2024; Corteva Agriscience grower relations
Pioneer Winter Nursery Operations — Central Chile →
CLMaule / O'Higgins Regions, Chile · breeding-nursery
Chile's counter-season allows year-round breeding cycles, compressing inbred development to hybrid release by 1–2 years. Corteva and other major seed companies maintain extensive winter nursery operations here.
What else they do
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Seeds (Pioneer Brand)
55%Crop Protection
35%Digital + Precision Agriculture
10%
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Incident2023
In 1999, DuPont acquired Pioneer Hi-Bred International for $9.4 billion — the largest agricultural acquisition in history at the time. The strategic logic: Pioneer held the most valuable commercial plant germplasm library in the world, had 37% US corn seed market share, and was generating 25%+ operating margins on seed sales (a rare combination in agricultural commodities). DuPont's acquisition transformed Pioneer from an independent Iowa-headquartered seed company (still majority employee and farmer-owned at the time of acquisition) into a subsidiary of a Delaware-based chemical conglomerate. The integration proved difficult: Pioneer's culture clashed with DuPont's corporate structure; Pioneer's top breeders — who had spent careers building proprietary germplasm — resisted DuPont's management layer. DuPont then merged with Dow Chemical in 2017 to form DowDuPont, which subsequently spun off into three companies: Corteva Agriscience (agriculture), DuPont (specialty materials), and Dow (chemicals). Pioneer went from independent Iowa seed company (1926) → DuPont subsidiary (1999) → DowDuPont division (2017) → Corteva spinoff (2019) in 93 years. Henry A. Wallace — Pioneer's founder, Iowa farmer, and FDR's Vice President — would have been unrecognizable as the owner of a $50B market cap Delaware holding company that sells hybrid corn to Iowa farmers.
Corteva Agriscience ↗Concentration2023
Corteva Agriscience occupies a uniquely powerful structural position in North American seed treatment because it controls both the seed and the seed treatment: Pioneer brand corn and soybean seed (the #1 selling brand in North America) is sold pre-treated with Lumisena + Lorsban (or alternative insecticide packages), meaning farmers who choose Pioneer seed automatically receive Corteva's seed treatment active ingredients. This captive channel — estimated at 30%+ of US corn and soybean seed acres — gives Corteva a guaranteed market for oxathiapiprolin that is not subject to commodity price competition or substitution by competing seed treatment formulations. Corteva is the only company in the global seed treatment market with this integrated seed + seed treatment sales model at scale; Syngenta sells seed treatment independently of its seeds division; Bayer's integration with Monsanto genetics is less complete. The Pioneer channel means Corteva's Lumisena achieves commercial scale disproportionate to Corteva's overall seed treatment market share rank.
Corteva Agriscience / Pioneer ↗Origin2026
Pioneer Hi-Bred was founded in 1926 by Henry A. Wallace, who later became U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1933–1940) and Vice President (1941–1945); the company he founded to sell hybrid corn now controls a larger share of the U.S. corn seed market than any other entity, and the hybrid technology Wallace pioneered increased U.S. average corn yields by nearly 600% over the following century.
Corteva Agriscience / Pioneer ↗