AS the 2012 seed-selling season rolled around, the number of new corn hybrids alone for Pioneer topped 100, which meant that while the company had a greater range of choice, the sales and deployment process became more complicated. And that's not theonly company with that big of a jump in hybrid numbers year-over-year. That kind of tech proliferation is becoming the norm for every aspect of the industry. Just listen to yield record-holding farmers talk about the tools they have translated from theircontest plots to their fields, and you start to see a growing number of technologies at work from planting to harvest.
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