The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), Chesterfield, Mo., and Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, sign a letter of intent for Pioneer to donate a tool designed to quickly quantify the ethanol yield potential of corn grain in the dry-grind process.

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), Chesterfield, Mo., and Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, sign a letter of intent for Pioneer to donate a tool designed to quickly quantify the ethanol yield potential of corn grain in the dry-grind process. The technology will allow corn growers to provide grain that could improve the efficiency of ethanol plants and also will allow the seed industry access to a single standardized calibration with which to measure corn hybrid ethanol potential. NCGA intends to enter a licensing agreement with Pioneer, in which the seed company would provide its High Total Fermentable (HTF) Rapid Assay technology for use by the corn industry. Pioneer would provide NCGA a royalty-free license to the company's HTF calibration and related data. This license would include rights to sublicense and use the data in future calibrations.