By Denise Faguy, Farms.com
To those in Agriculture it is not surprising that Forbes Magazine calls Harry Stine the Richest Man in Iowa
This past week there was an interesting article in Forbes Magazine on Harry Stine of Stine Seeds; according to the article, Stine is the richest man in Iowa. It’s well worth reading.
Forbes outlines that Stine has 15,000 acres of land, but more importantly, he has more than 900 patents for soybean and corn seeds. To quote Forbes “Some of the most impressive and fundamentally important advances on Earth are occurring today in agriculture, and the global epicenter is America’s heartland.”
According to Forbes, Stine was one of the first people to get a patent on the complete genetic makeup of a soybean.
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