Dow AgroSciences LLC and Mycogen Seeds have expanded and moved their current corn breeding field research station to a new location in Mt. Vernon, Indiana.

As announced last June, Dow AgroSciences purchased three acres of land located just west of the intersection of Lamont Road and Lower Mt. Vernon Road and has now completed construction of the new site.

The new Mt. Vernon research station site has expanded working and storage space to allow for continued growth. The new facilities include an office and seed lab building as well as an equipment storage building.

The Mt. Vernon Field Station has three basic breeding programmes: conventional grain corn breeding, silage corn breeding, and a germplasm enhancement breeding programme. The breeding programmes are coupled with a hybrid testing programme comprised of 65,000 yield trial plots in 2009 with plans for continued growth.

Project costs were not disclosed.

Mycogen Seeds  is a retail seed company of Dow AgroSciences and a developer and marketer of leading grain corn hybrids, the market leader in SILAGE-SPECIFIC corn hybrids and sunflower hybrids, as well as an industry leader in canola, alfalfa, soy and sorghum.