Harry Sting net worth
Harry Stine Net Worth: Harry Stine is an American businessman and entrepreneur with a net worth of $2.6 billion. Harry grew up in Dallas County, Iowa, and is a graduate of Macpherson College. He joined his father’s soy cleaning business in 1964. Stine is the founder and owner of The Stine Seed group of companies.
He owns the largest private seed company in the United States. The seed crop is located on 15,000 acres in rural Adel, Iowa. Stine’s forays into soybean genetics began in the 1960s. He patented the technology in the early 1990s and earned millions of dollars in royalties each year. His company also develops biotechnology and corn genetics. As a philanthropist, Sting made donations to the May Clinic and his alma mater, Macpherson College. Harry Stine is the richest man in Iowa. His company accounts for 60 percent of the U.S. soybean acreage. Forbes estimates his company is worth nearly $3 billion. Stine founded the first private soybean research and development company in the United States, the Improved Variety Research Corporation. In 1979, he started selling soybean seeds under the Stine Soybean Seeds label. He started selling corn and soft red winter wheat in 1992. Harry is a member of the American Academy of Agronomy and the American Seed Trade Association.
