Dupont Pioneer expands in West

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The world’s leading supplier of plant genetics is strengthening its presence in Western Canada.

DuPont Pioneer and DuPont Crop Protection opened a 613 sq. metre western Canadian office in Saskatoon last week staffed with 20 employees.

“This office enables DuPont Pioneer to deliver more focused and defined market approaches in Western Canada, including agronomic support and services to increase growers’ productivity,” company president Ian Grant said in a news release.

Greg Stokke, business director of Pioneer’s Western Canada commercial unit, said the company plans to more than double its western Canadian revenues over the next five years, which means expanding the workforce.

“In research alone, we expect to add more than 40 new full-time positions, and that is more than doubling our on-the-ground head count in Western Canada,” he said.

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Sean Pratt has been working at The Western Producer since 1993 after graduating from the University of Regina’s School of Journalism. Sean also has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and worked in a bank for a few years before switching careers. Sean primarily writes markets and policy stories about the grain industry and has attended more than 100 conferences over the past three decades. He has received awards from the Canadian Farm Writers Federation, North American Agricultural Journalists and the American Agricultural Editors Association.