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Vylor

Seeds and crop genetics · United States

Vylor is the former seed business of Corteva, spun off in October 2026: it breeds and sells corn, soybean and other seeds under brands like Pioneer and Brevant and licenses its traits to other seed companies in more than 70 countries.

What makes it different

A 100-year-old seed business that just became a new company.

64Production sitesOct 1, 2026

Pioneer was founded in 1926; Vylor is how it trades on its own again after DuPont, DowDuPont and Corteva.

How big it is

How big is Vylor?

$9.9BNet salesFY2025
70+CountriesFY2025
12,300Employees2025
How it makes money FY2025

Mostly corn seed, then soybeans.

  • Corn seed71%$7.0B
  • Soybean seed19%$1.9B
  • Other oilseeds7%$644M
  • Other4%$374M
How the business works

Breed better seed. Sell through agents.

  1. 1Germplasm, traits, gene editing
  2. 2Pioneer agents on farms
  3. 3Traits to other seed firms

Farmers buy new seed every season, so yield gains from breeding turn into repeat sales and licence income.

Who owns it

CEO: Charles V. Magro

Who it competes with
Bayer (Crop Science)SSyngentaBASFLLimagrain (Vilmorin)KKWS
Key moments
  1. 1926Hi-Bred Corn Company founded
  2. 1973Pioneer Hi-Bred goes public
  3. 1999DuPont acquires Pioneer
  4. 2019Corteva becomes independent
  5. 2025Corteva announces split
Sources

Every number on this page comes from Vylor's own reports.

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