Harry Stine & Family
$9.9B
Born
Nov 30, 1941
Age
84
Source of Wealth
Agriculture
Residence
Adel, Iowa
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
4
Education
- Farm boy turned seed-genetics savant Harry Stine has made a fortune licensing corn and soybean genetics to multinationals like Monsanto 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.
- Stine owns a small home down the road from the Stine Seeds headquarters in Adel, Iowa, and drives to work in his Ford F-150 pickup truck.
- Stine's an avid table tennis player and enjoys hunting morel mushrooms.
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