Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., will offer a premium-based program for growing low linolenic soybeans to selected elevators throughout the Midwest for the 2005-06 season.

Participating states are: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Missouri.

These elevators will offer up to a 40-cent premium per bushel on low lin soybeans as part of the Bunge DuPont Biotech Alliance. In conjunction with the premium program, the Alliance is marketing NUTRIUM[TM] Low Linolenic Soybean Oil to food companies to help meet increasing consumer demand for nutritious foods. Pioneer and Bunge are working with growers and local elevators to contract special low lin varieties used to produce NUTRIUM oil.