Pioneer Hi-Bred Begins Building New US Soybean Seed Plant

Matt Hopkins Posted by Matt Hopkins|27 May 2010

NEW MADRID, Missouri, US — DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred has broken ground on a $55 million parent and commercial soybean seed production plant in New Madrid County, Missouri, US. Located on 129 acres the new plant is expected to begin operation in the fall of 2011.

The new plant will primarily serve soybean growers in more southern geographies in the United States. Pioneer also has a research facility in Miami, Missouri, which produces and sells corn, soybean, sorghum and wheat seed.

Pioneer is expanding both its production and research locations in North America, says the company, which has recently announced plans for new research facilities and space for 400 new research positions based in Johnston, Iowa; the Center for Dryland Research in eastern North Carolina; expansion of its research facilities in Union City, Tennessee; expansion of drought research in Manhattan, Kansas, and Plainview, Texas; a new research center in
Ithaca, Michigan; and expansion at Hermiston, Oregon. Approximately half of Pioneer’s $1.4 billion annual research and development budget is dedicated to furthering the goal of improved food production.

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