Source: Forbes magazine
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Harry Stine, Founder and CEO of Stine Seeds is Iowa’s richest person with $10.2 billion. In 2018 his estimated wealth was $3.2 billion.
*Farm boy turned seed-genetics savant Harry Stine has made a fortune licensing corn and soybean genetics to multinationals like Bayer and Syngenta.
*Stine founded and runs Stine Seed; his current obsession is tinkering with seed genetics that allow for better yields or pesticide resistance.
*The son of a hardscrabble farmer, Stine became fascinated with seeds when he was a boy growing up in Iowa.
*He started farming at just five years old, driving a tractor to pick up straw bales.
*Stine, who is dyslexic and mildly autistic, is also a math and data wiz and a formidable negotiator.
*In the 1990s he struck highly lucrative licensing deals with large multinational corporations across the globe, which form the backbone of his empire.
*He’s donated to numerous Iowa institutions, including McPherson College, Drake University and Spurgeon Manor, a skilled nursing facility for seniors.
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