Pioneer IndustrySelect® Program - Linking Seed to the End-Use Needs
DuPont subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., provides unique products, services, technologies and knowledge to customers across the agriculture value chain through its IndustrySelect® program. The program leverages Pioneer product development expertise and high-yielding, proprietary genetics with industry-leading knowledge of grain composition and end-user needs. Seed products selected for the program must offer the agronomic package and yield potential growers demand, along with the specifically required end-use grain characteristics.
Pioneer matches its strengths in grain analytics with its in-depth understanding of end-user needs to develop hybrids and varieties that meet specific needs for effective animal nutrition, wet milling, dry-grind ethanol production and food-corn processing, etc. The Pioneer IndustrySelect® program also helps growers identify grain-marketing opportunities within their local commerce circle.
Better Corn for Processors
Corn refining / wet milling utilizes nearly 20 percent of U.S. corn production and serves a variety of starch, ethanol, fructose and industrial product markets. Pioneer High Extractable Starch (HES) corn hybrids help enhance starch yields and improve productivity of wet millers. For more than 10 years, Pioneer has been identifying corn hybrids with higher starch extractability for U.S. and export markets.
Twenty-four Pioneer Industry Select hybrids now carry the HES (high extractable starch) designation based on data from more than 80,000 Pioneer plot samples from the last five years. Large-scale commercial trials with corn wet-millers are ongoing to further document the value of Pioneer HES hybrids.
For wet millers that require the unique starch functionality characteristics of waxy corn, Pioneer leads the industry with the highest yielding package of waxy hybrids.
Better Feed for Swine and Poultry
Corn energy value is critical for the pork and poultry producer. Pioneer hybrids with the High Available Energy (HAE) designation have been selected for their above average energy digestibility value. As a result of feeding trials conducted at Pioneer’s state-of-the-art livestock nutrition center, growers and feeders can now select from 77 Pioneer HAE hybrids to help maximize the conversion of feed grain energy into pork, poultry or eggs.
Better Food Grade Corn
Food corn processors have unique grain quality and functionality requirements. Pioneer White and Yellow food grade corn hybrids have been characterized in Pioneer’s grain quality lab for up to 15 physical and functional characteristics. Pioneer then works with leading food corn customers to assure we find the optimal balance between processing performance and yield/agronomics in the field.
Pioneer began developing superior white corn hybrids more than 50 years ago and today has the industry’s most advanced hybrid screening program for yellow food corn. Pioneer delivers the strongest offering of white and yellow food-corn hybrids in the industry, with more than 40 hybrids in the lineup.
Better Corn for Ethanol
Dry-grind ethanol is the fastest growing market for U.S. corn grain. High Total Fermentables (HTF) corn hybrids from Pioneer feature above-average ethanol production potential in high-yielding hybrids. The HTF designation has been earned by 135 hybrids and is based on data from more than 20,000 Pioneer plot samples tested over the past three years.
Working with leading ethanol processors, Pioneer provides information generated from extensive laboratory and commercial trials that facilitates development of customized HTF recommended hybrid lists. These hybrid packages seek to improve ethanol yield by up to four percent.
Better Soybeans for Biodiesel, Livestock and Food
A small increase in oil content in soybeans could mean significant savings for processing plants that produce millions of gallons of biodiesel, as vegetable oil feedstocks comprise about 80 percent of the cost of biodiesel production.
Pioneer soybean varieties with characterization data that indicate oil levels of 19 percent or more and/or protein levels of 35 percent or more have been designated as Pioneer IndustrySelect® High Oil and/or High Protein Soybean Varieties.
Oil from low linolenic soybeans can eliminate the need for partial hydrogenation of soy oil. TREUS™ brand low linolenic oil, produced by Bunge North America from Pioneer brand low linolenic soybeans contains less than three percent linolenic acid (compared to seven or eight percent in traditional soy oil). With this oil, trans fat can be reduced or eliminated in many applications.
