Soybean varieties with AYT technology are expected to yield up to 12 percent more than today's top-yielding soybean varieties. In other words, they looked at their existing varieties and found sub-lines that were higher yielding than the original elite varieties on the market today. How it works Pioneer has kept a complete collection of their soybean varieties from the 1950s until today. The presence of one or more of these gene markers in a chromosome indicates the presence of a gene that...

Although some can offer convincing arguments that global demand growth is outstripping our ability to produce some commodities, the short answer to the question is we have not entered a new era of permanently higher commodity prices and prices will fall, but probably not to previous levels because production costs have risen. Although some can offer convincing arguments that global demand growth is outstripping our ability to produce some commodities, the short answer to the question is we...

A PROMINENT United Nations activist against famine has demanded a five-year moratorium on biofuels as a new report showed Australia could use its sugar to become a major global provider of ethanol. However, Australia was falling behind most of the big players in the global ethanol market in terms of industry maturity and production. These included the emergence of second-generation technologies, the development of the hybrid automobile market, and what key energy-consuming nations such as...

Farmers were hoping for some precipitation over the weekend to give their crops a boost, and some fell, but not what farmers were wanting and needing. Some county farmers, he said, have already started harvesting this year's corn, "and several I've spoken to have their combines out, greased and fueled up ready to go," he said. The growing season for this year's corn and soybeans started out well, with timely planting and timely moisture. The appearance of the crops is evidence of that...

Farmers who like the idea think they're more likely to get payments this way in an era when the ethanol boom is keeping commodity prices relatively high. The savings to the government could be around $4 billion in three years. But the reason many senators like the program - and the reason it has a good chance of becoming law - is not because it will spend more money but because it spends less, at least on paper. A new subsidy plan included in the Senate version of the farm bill is designed...

In addition, new Pioneer seed and trait developments on the horizon include drought tolerance, nitrogen use efficiency, a line of high-yielding soybeans and soybean varieties with higher levels of healthy oils. Following this in the pipeline are a new fungicide for cereals, a second-generation anthranilic diamide insecticide and two promising candidates for herbicides and fungicides. Some of the exciting products in discovery and development include new DuPont herbicides, fungicides and...