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2010 - DuPont and Syngenta end their joint venture, GreenLeaf Genetics LLC, with Syngenta retaining complete ownership. 2012 - Pioneer announces update to business name to be DuPont Pioneer. 2012 - Lawsuit regarding pesticides and dust by 200 residents of Waimea, Kauai against Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a DuPont company. [5]
The new enterprise will assume the liability for DuPont’s most polluted sites, including Washington Works—but it will only have one-quarter of DuPont’s revenue. Many people with cases pending against DuPont worry that it will use this arrangement to avoid paying damages or, at the very least, stall any resulting payouts.
In 2010, DuPont Pioneer received approval to market Plenish soybeans, which contain "the highest oleic acid content of any commercial soybean product, at more than 75 percent. Plenish has no trans fat, 20 percent less saturated fat than regular soybean oil, and is a more stable oil with greater flexibility in food and industrial applications."
These led to DuPont's very successful and very selective sulfonylurea herbicides. CRD's program included agricultural and veterinary chemicals and bacteriological and microbiological studies. The culmination of this work was DuPont's purchase of Pioneer Hi-Bred Seeds and its integration into DuPont's agrichemical enterprise.
County Market is a supermarket chain primarily operating in the Midwestern United States. [1] Presently, more than 100 independently owned County Market stores operate in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri. [1] County Market is part of the United Natural Foods company [2] since the latter's acquisition of SuperValu in 2018. [3]
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In March 2016, it was reported that Dow Chemical Co. and the DuPont Co. agreed to pay $27 million to DuPont CEO Edward Breen if he left the company by early 2017. [8] In February 2020, Breen was reinstated as DuPont CEO replacing Marc Doyle. [9] Breen is an alumnus of Grove City College and is the chair of the college's board of trustees. [10]
At its high point in 1897, over 2 million packages of seed were distributed to farmers. Even at the time the program was eliminated in 1924, it was the third largest line item in the United States Department of Agriculture 's budget.