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2021: Honored by the National Biodiesel Board, now called Clean Fuels Alliance America, naming their Pioneer Award after him: the “Kenlon Johannes Pioneer Award”. [22] 2021: Awarded an Admiralship in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska by Governor Pete Rickets. [23] 2022: Received the Kansas Soybean Association’s “Friend of Soy ...
Pioneer sold the shares in 1998. Pioneer becomes the number one brand of soybeans in North America. 1992 - Pioneer paid $450,000 to Monsanto for rights to genetically modified soybean seeds that are resistant to RoundUp herbicide. 1993 - Pioneer paid $38 million to Monsanto for rights to Bt corn that is resistant to European corn borers.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rice County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen on a map. [ 1 ]
On January 2, 2013, the Department of Homeland Security accepted a transfer of land from the State of Kansas for the site of the facility. In March 2013, a contract was awarded for the construction of a central utility plant for the NBAF. [5] An official groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the power plant was held on May 28, 2013. [15]
U.S. farmers are about halfway done planting winter wheat for harvest in 2024, but acreage is expected to remain stable or decrease from last year because of lower prices and farmers ...
In 2012, Asgrow started its National Yield Contest for soybean producers. The contest winner produces the most soybeans and farmers nationwide have opportunity to learn more about the latest seed technologies and production practices. [7] In 2018, Bayer AG acquired Monsanto, and Asgrow became a brand of Bayer Crop Science. [8]
In the early 1990s, Pioneer Hi-Bred attempted to improve the nutrition content of soybeans intended for animal feed by adding a gene from the Brazil nut. Because they knew that people have allergies to nuts, Pioneer ran in vitro and skin prick allergy tests. The tests showed that the transgenic soy was allergenic. [165]
Seaboard's history is deeply tied to grain. Otto Bresky purchased his first flour mill in Atchison, Kansas, in 1918. During the next 40 years he would purchase additional flour mills, mostly in Kansas, under the name Rodney Milling. In 1959 the company went public through a merger with Hathaway Industries, Inc., a publicly traded company. The ...