Matt arrives at Pioneer headquarters for a peek behind the curtain. As a farmer and host of “The Off-Farm Income Podcast,” he’s interviewed hundreds of farmers over the years. But as he tours Pioneer’s extensive R&D facilities, he realizes the Corn Revolution is completely different than anything he’s covered before.

Matt speaks with Ryan Myers, U.S. Corn Category lead, about the changes at Pioneer — changes that have been taking place for well over a decade. Like the prominent rise of predictive analytics in seed development, the significance of the Qrome® product, and how far this Corn Revolution can really go.

Neal Hoss, North America Corn product manager, joins Matt to discuss the extensive role of agronomy at Pioneer and how the additional year of field testing led to more consistent yields. Also, Matt finally learns what a double-haploid is.

Matt talks to Brandon Wardyn, Evaluation Zone lead in Maize Product Development Testing. He explores the delicate balance of yield versus consistency, the breeding side of the Corn Revolution, and he digs a little deeper into the Qrome® product.

Matt speaks with Emily Ziemke, North American Corn Technology Lead, to learn all about predictive analytics: how it has dramatically shortened the seed development timeline, how it’s combined with real-world performance data and the innovative ways Pioneer shares this data globally.

Matt’s guest is Andy Baumgarten, Senior Research Scientist and Lead of Applied Breeding Technologies and Genomics. He hears about testing standability traits in fields throughout the U.S., the balance of technology and human intuition, and how much data a petabyte is.

Matt interviews Neil Hausmann, Field Sensing lead, to learn about innovative phenotyping tools used in the field like mobile image analysis and drone imaging, and hears about Neil’s role in the development of Pioneer® brand Optimum® AQUAmax® hybrids.

Matt speaks with Andrea Arias, who works in Data Science and Informatics, to discover the vast amounts of testing data that Pioneer collects, how they turn that data into insights for research teams and the irreplaceable role of human intuition.