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1924 - Henry Wallace begins selling 'Copper Cross', an early commercial hybrid seed corn. 1926 - Hi-Bred Corn Company is founded in Des Moines, Iowa, with $7,000 in capital. [7] 1931 - Roswell Garst agrees to produce/distribute seed. The following year Garst partners with Charles Thomas to form the Garst and Thomas Seed Corn Company.
In 1931, Garst and Thomas Hi-Bred Corn Company was founded by Roswell Garst and Charley Thomas in Coon Rapids, Iowa, and was "instrumental in promoting the use of hybrid corn." [ 1 ] During the Cold War , Garst formed a relationship with Nikita Khrushchev and assisted the USSR in modernizing its corn production.
The DowDuPont agricultural businesses that became Corteva had revenue of over $14 billion in 2017, [7] which would have placed the company in the Fortune 500 for that year. A major part of the company is Pioneer Hi-Bred International, which DuPont purchased in 1999.
On Aug. 5, 2019, about 95 workers were detasseling corn in a field in Santa Anna Township, Illinois, operated by the agricultural seed and chemical company Corteva Agrisciences, when a plane flew ...
A festival created by teens for teens is returning to Des Moines' Riverview Park this Saturday. Presented by Hip-Hope Inc., the second annual Iowa Corn Bred Cornbread Festival seeks to spotlight ...
The co-ops sold the 130,000 barrel-a-day refinery and two terminals in 1988. [5] In 1990, Southern States bought the Wetsel Seed Company of Harrisonburg, Virginia, a family owned seed company founded in 1911, which became a subsidiary of Southern States. Five years later, the company’s name was changed to Wetsel Inc. Southern States sold the ...
Sub nom. Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l, Inc. v. Ottawa Plant Food, Inc., 283 F. Supp. 2d 1018 (N.D. Iowa 2003) Holding; Newly developed plant breeds fall within the subject matter of 35 U.S.C. § 101, and neither the Plant Patent Act nor the Plant Variety Protection Act limits the scope of § 101's coverage. Court membership; Chief Justice William ...
Tariq, aka "Corn Kid" discuses his viral "Recess Therapy" interview, fame and his love of corn.