Stine owns Stine Seeds and made his fortune breeding soybeans and corn before licensing the genetics to companies such as Monsanto and Syngenta. Stine has repeatedly been ranked the richest Iowan ...

That’s because Cochran, his brother Randy and Stine Seed Company field manager Steve Luther designed a high-pressure air cleanout system on a brand new combine before it saw a single bean.

the president of Adel-based Stine Seed Company. Stine has been breeding shorter varieties of corn for years. They classify ...