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DuPont Pioneer and CHS Inc. (CHS) announced Aug. 29 that CHS Processing and Food Ingredients will offer production contracts for Pioneer® brand Plenish® high oleic soybeans for 2017 production in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. Contracted soybeans will be processed at the CHS Fairmont, Minn., plant and expand the footprint for high oleic soybean production, increasing grower access to this value-added market opportunity.