Corteva Inc at Bank of America Agriculture & Materials Conference (Virtual) Transcript

Mar 03, 2021 / 01:00PM GMT
Steve Byrne - BofA Securities, Research Division - Director of Equity Research

Well, good morning, everyone. It's pure pleasure for me to kick off this conference today with Corteva. And with me from Corteva is Jim Collins and Sam Eathington. So I couldn't have picked a better corporate to kick off this conference.

So let me introduce these fellows. So Jim Collins is a chemical engineer by training, joined DuPont in 1984 as a sales rep, has had a long history in the ag business at DuPont, was involved in both the seed and crop chemical side, eventually ran the ag business for DuPont. And then in the DowDuPont merger of those ag businesses, Jim ran that, and then post the spin of Corteva, Jim has been the CEO. So it's terrific to have him today.

But also joining him is Sam Eathington. He's Chief Technology Officer for Corteva. So he's responsible for the R&D platform at Corteva. He was previously the Chief Science Officer at Climate Corp, and prior to that, he ran the breeding program for Monsanto for a couple of decades. I met Sam more than 15 years ago in Ankeny, Iowa when he was in

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