DuPont Pioneer Corn Update

Reed Mayberry

Sr. Corn Marketing Manager

DuPont Media Day

February 18, 2014

THANK YOU

Purpose: High-level overview of new developments in the DuPont Pioneer

corn portfolio.

Process: 45 minutes. Please ask questions as they come up!

Payoff: Attaining information on Pioneer® brand corn products to help

explain to your grower readers, listeners & viewers the multiple choices

available to them from Pioneer!

Agenda

Right Product – Right Acre

Reed Mayberry/Documents/NCGA/Yield Contest/NCGA Contest.mp4

2013 NCGA Yield Contest • Congratulate David Hula of Charles City, VA for

breaking the corn yield world record! – 454.98 bushels per acre – Pioneer® hybrid P2088YHR

– 1st, 2nd or 3rd in NCGA corn yield contest since 1993.

• Pioneer “400 Bushel Club”

– Only 3 growers planting Pioneer® brand products achieved 400+ BPA

– Pioneer won 61% of the entries

• For more information on higher yields:

– www.pioneer.com/home/site/us/products/corn/high-yield-production/

Right Product – Right Acre

A Vision for Industry Leadership & Sustained Growth

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DuPont Pioneer Vision

“Global Resources – Local Solutions”

$2.1 BILLION SPENT ON RESEARCH

& DEVELOPMENT IN 2012

>10,000 SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS

$2.1 BILLION SPENT ON RESEARCH

& DEVELOPMENT IN 2012

OVER 150 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE

IMPACTTM Plots

• Intensively Managed • Dedicated teams of employees manage & collect data

• Pioneer equipment for planting, data collection & harvest

• Product Advancement • Increased number of products tested

• Increased understanding of testing environments

• Product Characterization • Collect characterization data from diverse environments

• Area Agronomists capture traits from a customer perspective

• Trials • Benchmarking experimental hybrids/varieties vs. Pioneer® brand

commercial products and competitive products

• Opportunities for customers, sales agents and field sales staff to learn about current product line up and competitors

IMPACTTM plot Trial Field Structure

• Typical site: •3 maturity sets of pre-commercial products & checks: •60+ products tested

• Sites with demonstration plots in front ranges

• Typical field size 2-5 acres

Multi-year, replicated on-farm

testing before commercialization

Customer involvement - 1st hand

experience

Backbone to Right Product – Right

Acre

Local decisions

IMPACT™ plot: Improving Performance

Introducing Optimum® Leptra™^ Hybrids

Pioneer® brand Optimum® Leptra™^ hybrids feature a powerful combination of three insect protection traits (Herculex® I, YieldGard® Corn Borer, and Agrisure Viptera®) for multiple modes of action & superior protection against a broad-spectrum of above-ground pests.

These products offer flexibility for late planting, providing reliable protection against ear-feeding pests in high-pressure environments for customer peace of mind.

They also help deliver cleaner ears with less kernel damage, protecting yield and limiting one of the primary factors for development of molds and mycotoxins.

Optimum Leptra insect protection is available in four hybrids with limited quantities for 2014 planting:

P1319VYHR P1401VYHR P1637VYHR P1794VYHR

Extensive field research with Optimum® Leptra™^ hybrids helps us characterize efficacy and product performance across a wide range of environments.

Locally tested, proven performance

IMPACT™ and PAT Trials

DuPont Pioneer Research Trials

University Research Trials

2013 Optimum Leptra product U.S. Research Trials

Superior efficacy against Southern lep pests

Over the past two years, DuPont Pioneer scientists have conducted pest studies to compare Optimum® Leptra™^ insect protection to existing technologies

In these studies, Optimum Leptra hybrids have shown to reduce feeding from corn earworm by 97% compared to non-Bt hybrids

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Optimum® Leptra™^ hybrids provide three modes of action against SWCB and CEW and two modes of action against many other lep pests

Using pyramided products reduces a growers refuge requirement and aides in preserving today’s trait technologies for future use

Three unique modes of action

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CRW – What is Known

• Resistance can lead to trait failure and result in significant yield loss from rootworms.

• Field evolved western corn rootworm resistance to Monsanto VT3, VT3P (Cry3Bb1) products has been documented.1,2,4

• No documented resistance to the HXRW rootworm trait in Pioneer® brand Optimum® AcreMax® 1 (AM1), Optimum® AcreMax® Xtra (AMX) and Optimum® AcreMax® XTreme (AMXT) products.

• No documented cross-resistance between Monsanto VT3, VT3P products and HXRW rootworm trait in Pioneer brand AM1, AMX, AMXT products.2,4

• Pioneer believes any messaging that all single-trait below ground products are failing is misleading.

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• Over 42,000 on-farm competitive comparisons since launched in 2011!

• Planted on over 7 million acres in 2013 – 10 million + acres estimated in 2014!

• 48 products with a wide range of maturities & technology packages

• 89 - 114 CRM product offerings

• Optimum® AcreMax® Family insect protection

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Optimum® AQUAmax® “Drought Leader” .

Source: From 2011-2013, Pioneer® brand Optimum® AQUAmax® products were grown in 42,084 on-farm comparisons across the United States against competitor brand products (+/- 4 CRM). Water-limited yield data includes

5,203 competitive comparisons with a win ratio of 67 percent, and favorable environment includes 36,881 competitive comparisons with a win ratio of 57 percent. Water-limited environments are those in which the water

supply/demand ratio during flowering or grain fill was less than 0.66 on a 0-1 scale (1=adequate moisture) using the Pioneer proprietary EnClass® system and in which the yield average of competitor brand hybrids at the location

was less than 150 bu/acre. Favorable growing conditions are locations where yield levels were at or above 150 bu/acre on average, regardless of water supply/demand ratio. Precipitation levels are interpolated values based on local

weather stations. Product performance in water-limited environments is variable and depends on many factors such as the severity and timing of moisture deficiency, heat stress, soil type, management practices and environmental

stress as well as disease and pest pressures. All hybrids may exhibit reduced yield under water and heat stress. Individual results may vary.

Category % Yield

Advantage

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# of Comps

Water-limited

+6.8 6.9 67% 5,203

Favorable +1.7 3.6 57% 36,881

Source: From 2011-2013, Pioneer® brand Optimum® AQUAmax® products were grown in 42,084 on-farm comparisons across the United States against competitor brand products (+/- 4 CRM). Water-limited yield data

includes 5,203 competitive comparisons with a win ratio of 67 percent, and favorable environment includes 36,881 competitive comparisons with a win ratio of 57 percent. Water-limited environments are those in which

the water supply/demand ratio during flowering or grain fill was less than 0.66 on a 0-1 scale (1=adequate moisture) using the Pioneer proprietary EnClass® system and in which the yield average of competitor brand

hybrids at the location was less than 150 bu/acre. Favorable growing conditions are locations where yield levels were at or above 150 bu/acre on average, regardless of water supply/demand ratio. Precipitation levels are

interpolated values based on local weather stations. Product performance in water-limited environments is variable and depends on many factors such as the severity and timing of moisture deficiency, heat

stress, soil type, management practices and environmental stress as well as disease and pest pressures. All hybrids may exhibit reduced yield under water and heat stress. Individual results may vary.

THE DROUGHT LEADER

Pioneer® brand Optimum

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P1151HR (HX1,LL,RR2) DKC63-55RIB DG

July 2013 Gregory, South Dakota http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDGd6DZAn8

Pioneer® brand Conventional Corn Hybrids

• DuPont Pioneer offers a full lineup of conventional corn hybrids in elite genetics.

• White, Waxy & Yellow Dent markets

• 35+ conventional corn hybrids available • 73 – 120 CRMs

• Reliable supplier status

• Pioneer will continue to provide conventional hybrids for these customers.

• “Right Product – Right Acre”

CORN R&D PIPELINE Reflects “R&D Phase” advancements/additions 2/12-2/13

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Footnotes

Product performance in water-limited environments is variable and depends on many factors such as the severity and timing of moisture deficiency, heat stress, soil type, management practices and environmental stress as well as

disease and pest pressures. All hybrids may exhibit reduced yield under water and heat stress. Individual results may vary.

^EXPORT APPROVAL NOTICE: This product is fully approved in the United States and Canada. Traits included in these products may or may not be approved in key global markets; therefore, the combination of these traits and the grain and certain by-

products from THESE PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE APPROVED for all markets. For questions about specific countries please contact your Sales Representative or refer to www.pioneer.com/stewardship. Customers are advised to discuss trait acceptance

policies with their local grain handler prior to delivering grain containing biotech traits.

AM1 - Optimum® AcreMax® 1 Insect Protection System with an integrated corn rootworm refuge solution includes HXX, LL, RR2. Optimum AcreMax 1 products contain the LibertyLink® gene and can be sprayed with Liberty® herbicide. The required

corn borer refuge can be planted up to half a mile away. AMRW - Optimum® AcreMax® RW Rootworm Protection system with a single-bag integrated corn rootworm refuge solution includes HXRW, LL, RR2. AM - Optimum® AcreMax® Insect Protection

system with YGCB, HX1, LL, RR2. Contains a single-bag integrated refuge solution for above-ground insects. In EPA-designated cotton growing counties, a 20% separate corn borer refuge must be planted with Optimum AcreMax products. AMX -

Optimum® AcreMax® Xtra Insect Protection system with YGCB, HXX, LL, RR2. Contains a single-bag integrated refuge solution for above- and below-ground insects. In EPA-designated cotton growing counties, a 20% separate corn borer refuge must

be planted with Optimum AcreMax Xtra products. AMXT (Optimum® AcreMax® XTreme) - Contains a single-bag integrated refuge solution for above- and below-ground insects. The major component contains the Agrisure® RW trait, the YieldGard®

Corn Borer gene, and the Herculex® XTRA genes. In EPA-designated cotton growing counties, a 20% separate corn borer refuge must be planted with Optimum AcreMax XTreme products. YGCB,HX1,LL,RR2 (Optimum® Intrasect®) - Contains the

YieldGard® Corn Borer gene and Herculex® I gene for resistance to corn borer. YGCB,HXX,LL,RR2 (Optimum® Intrasect® Xtra) - Contains the YieldGard® Corn Borer gene and the Herculex XTRA genes for resistance to corn borer and corn rootworm.

RW,YGCB,HXX,LL,RR2 (Optimum® Intrasect® XTreme) - Contains the Agrisure® RW trait, the YieldGard Corn Borer gene, and the Herculex® XTRA genes for resistance to corn borer and corn rootworm. Optimum Intrasect XTreme will be the major

component of Optimum AcreMax XTtreme. RW,HX1,LL,RR2 (Optimum® TRIsect®) - Contains the Herculex I gene for above-ground pests and the Agrisure® RW trait for resistance to corn rootworm. AVBL,CB,LL,GT (Optimum® Leptra™^)- Contains

the Agrisure Viptera® 3110^ trait stack: Agrisure Viptera®, Agrisure® CB and Agrisure® GT traits.

HX1 - Contains the Herculex® I Insect Protection gene which provides protection against European corn borer, southwestern corn borer, black cutworm, fal l armyworm, western bean cutworm, lesser corn stalk borer, southern corn stalk borer, and

sugarcane borer; and suppresses corn earworm. HXRW - The Herculex® RW insect protection trait contains proteins that provide enhanced resistance against western corn rootworm, northern corn rootworm and Mexican corn rootworm. HXX -

Herculex® XTRA contains the Herculex I and Herculex RW genes. YGCB - The YieldGard® Corn Borer gene offers a high level of resistance to European corn borer, southwestern corn borer and southern cornstalk borer; moderate resistance to corn

earworm and common stalk borer; and above average resistance to fall armyworm. LL - Contains the LibertyLink® gene for resistance to Liberty® herbicide. RR2 - Contains the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 trait that provides crop safety for over-the-top

applications of labeled glyphosate herbicides when applied according to label directions.

Herculex® Insect Protection technology by Dow AgroSciences and Pioneer Hi-Bred. Herculex® and the HX logo are registered trademarks of Dow AgroSciences LLC.

YieldGard®, the YieldGard Corn Borer Design and Roundup Ready® are registered trademarks used under license from Monsanto Company.

Liberty®, LibertyLink® and the Water Droplet Design are trademarks of Bayer.

Agrisure® and Agrisure Viptera® are registered trademarks of, and used under license from, a Syngenta Group Company. Agrisure® technology incorporated into these seeds is commercialized under a license from Syngenta Crop Protection AG.

The DuPont Oval Logo is a registered trademark of DuPont.

PIONEER® brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents. ®, TM, SM Trademarks and service marks of Pioneer. © 2014 PHII.

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