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Virginia farmer David Hula visited with the team at the Hawai鈥榠 Research Center on Kaua鈥榠.
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Virginia farmer David Hula visited with the team at the Hawai鈥榠 Research Center on Kaua鈥榠.
While known as a vacation destination, Hawai鈥榠 is also rich in agriculture and ggpoker中文 has capitalized on that with a Parent Seed location on O鈥榓hu and a Research location on Kaua鈥榠. Many of our employees and customers stop in for a tour while they are vacationing in our beautiful state.
In early February 2024, Virginia farmer David Hula visited the islands with his wife, Sandy, and another farmer, Keith Jones and wife, Christine. David is a multiple-time winner of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) National Yield Contest and set a new world record of 623.84 bu/A in 2023. David and Keith toured Waialua Parent Seed on O鈥榓hu with site lead Alika Napier. Alika also took them to view other Hawai鈥榠 agricultural operations at Dole Plantation and K艒 Hana Rum. Throughout the tours, David and Keith learned some of the advantages and challenges of agriculture in Hawai鈥榠.
The group then flew to Kaua鈥榠 to tour the Hawai鈥榠 Research Center, including our seed handling operations, genotyping lab, tissue culture lab and the double haploid shade houses. The timing was perfect as ggpoker中文 R&D leaders Geoff Graham, Tom Sauber and Amy Blahnik were in Hawai鈥榠 visiting the research locations that week and we were able to have a nice lunch that resulted in a productive information exchange. One of the great things that came out of the discussion was knowing that, as a farmer, David appreciates the team support and relationships he has with ggpoker中文. He is a loyal Pioneer customer and was happy to meet some of the people involved in developing one of the parents of the hybrid he set the new corn yield record with. We were able to share its development back to Hawai鈥榠 starting in 2012. Mahalo, David and Keith, for visiting and touring our farms!
David Hula also visited with the team at the Parent Seed location on O鈥榓hu.
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David Hula also visited with the team at the Parent Seed location on O鈥榓hu.
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