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Good morning. My name is Audra, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Cartiva Agriscience First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings. Today's conference is being recorded. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise.

After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Kim Booth, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and welcome to Corteva's first quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. Our prepared remarks today will be led by Chuck Magro, Chief Executive Officer and David Johnson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Additionally, Jud O'Connor, Executive Vice President, Seed Business Unit and Robert King, Executive Vice President, Crop Protection Business Unit will join the Q and A session. We have prepared presentation slides to supplement our remarks during this call, which are posted on the Investor Relations section of the Corteva website and through the link to our webcast. During this call, we will make forward looking statements, which are our expectations about the future.

These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could materially differ from these statements due to these risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those discussed on this call and in the Risk Factors section of our reports filed with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward looking statements. Please note in today's presentation, we'll be making references to certain non GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of the non GAAP measures can be found in our earnings press release and related schedules, along with our supplemental financial summary slide deck available on our Investor Relations website.

It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to Chuck.

Thanks, Kim. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us today. Spring is always a busy and exciting time for agriculture, and this year is no exception. 2025 is off to a good start. Planning in the Northern Hemisphere is proceeding well.

The weather has cooperated for the most part, and CP destocking is firmly behind us. There are some back half risks we are monitoring, and we will discuss those today. But let's start with the quarter. Year over year, Corteva saw a 15% increase in Q1 EBITDA, and nearly 400 basis points of margin expansion, driven by strong cost execution in three growth platforms: biological, CP new products and seed out licensing. Both of our segments delivered healthy double digit EBITDA gains.

The biggest driver was operational excellence. And on this front, we are tracking well against the $400,000,000 net cost target we set for ourselves. More on this later. This performance allows us to reaffirm our full year guidance, which we announced in February. It also allows us to derisk the second half of the year.

David will explain more. Factored into our guidance is the fact that farmers in The U. S. Are projected to shift planted area from soybeans to corn, resulting in a projected increase in corn of about 5%. And if current trends hold, Enlist beans will be planted on just over 65% of all U.

S. Soybean acres in 2025. As it approaches maturity, Enlist is the number one selling soybean technology in The U. S. As you know, our focus is now set on becoming the leading provider of soybean technology in Brazil.

We're making great strides on that front, having sold more than 3,000,000 units of Conquesta E3 soybeans over the last three years. Globally, from an overall industry perspective, we're seeing somewhat mixed fundamentals. Record demand for grains and oilseeds continue, and farmers are investing in premium seed and crop protection technology to enhance and protect their yield. Although corn is faring relatively well so far this year and is less reliant on export trade, overall crop prices and margins have moderated somewhat as planted area shifts and trade uncertainty begins to weigh on the markets. Getting back to Corteva.

Our seed business is off to a strong start. Organic sales were up 2% in the quarter, driven by pricing, reflecting the value our seed technology consistently delivers to farmers. Our seed order book reflects strong demand for our product lineup, and we are planning to bring about 500 new products to the market this year with approximately 300 new seed hybrids and varieties. We are also seeing meaningful improvements on the cost side, allowing seed to deliver just under 400 basis points of margin enhancement for the quarter. On crop protection, organic sales were up 3% in the quarter, driven by double digit volume growth for both new products and biologicals, two of our near term strategic growth platforms.

We've now seen four consecutive quarters of volume gains, a sign that the channel is operating at healthy levels. Our latest view of the crop protection market for the full year is a flattish environment with low single digit volume gains offset by low single digit pricing headwinds. For Corteva, we continue to expect high single digit volume gains more than offsetting low single digit pricing headwinds. However, our revised thinking is that price pressure will persist into the second half, but to a lesser extent than what we've seen in the first half. Our plan for crop protection in Brazil for the second half contemplates an EBITDA contribution about the same as last year, a strong performance, but if we did it once, we can do it again.

On seed in Brazil, we have spent a fair amount of time talking about the inroads we're making on soybeans with Conquesta, but I'd be remiss not to mention the exciting developments we're seeing in the market for corn.

Brazil's corn ethanol industry has seen remarkable growth since the country's first plant in 2017, With production poised to nearly double by early next decade, corn is expected to account for nearly a third of Brazil's total ethanol production by 2026, strengthening Brazil's position as the world's second largest ethanol producer.

The rise in production is also linked to Brazil's increasing safrinha corn output, which has doubled over the past decade. Given our leading position in Brazil corn, this is certainly going to be a structural value creator for us. Moving on to tariffs, an important topic in the quarter. This is a fluid situation as you all know, but we'll try to summarize how Corteva may or may not be impacted by the tariffs currently in place, which in 2025 is largely a crop protection story. Long story short, based on what we know today, the direct cost impact to Corteva in 2025 should be about $50,000,000 which we believe is manageable.

While we work through the process of identifying the level and nature of mitigation efforts, we have not at this time dialed the puts and takes into our financial numbers that David will discuss in a few minutes. The main takeaway is that tariffs are not impacting our full year guidance range. But please note, we have work to do to mitigate the impact. It is important to reiterate the significance of our domestic manufacturing footprint. Two of our largest crop protection franchises, Enlist and Sminosyns, are both produced here in The U.

S. We are also seeing the benefits of our global multi sourcing capabilities as we work to minimize the impact on costs and customers. That

our bigger concern lies with American farmers. American farmers are the backbone of the world's food supply, working sun up to sun down to produce the food we eat every day. As the American growing season moves closer to the harvest, we hope to see export markets open up for North American grain and oilseeds. I don't think we're alone in this view, and it goes without saying that the financial well-being of our farmers affects the entire industry, and the world does need the food. So as we sit here today in the May, I am pleased with our first quarter performance.

Double digit EBITDA gains and almost 400 basis points of margin improvement is not easy to come by in this market environment, and it is driven by another quarter of operational excellence. As we all know, the first quarter doesn't dictate the year in agriculture, but the first half is playing out a little better than we expected. The tariff situation appears to be manageable based on what we know today, and we're showing good progress on our growth platforms. I believe we have the appropriate level of attention on improving our cost position through our controllable levers. It's worth repeating that we expect to generate net cost improvements of $400,000,000 driven by productivity and raw material tailwinds.

In addition, our path to royalty neutrality and transitioning to a net out licenser technology by later this decade is expected to generate another $65,000,000 in benefits this year. These self help levers continue to drive value creation for the company and provide meaningful, some might say transformational margin enhancement through the ag cycle. With that, let me turn the call over to David.

Thanks Chuck and welcome everyone to the call. Let's start on Slide six, which provides the financial results for the first quarter. You can see from the numbers, results for the quarter were strong, led by more corn acres in North America along with favorable timing and execution on controllables in both seed and crop protection. Organic sales were up 3% compared to last year, with seed up 2% and crop protection up 3%. Currency was a significant headwind to top line for the quarter at 5% of sales, in line with expectations.

Feed pricing was up 3% in the quarter with pricing gains in most regions as we continue to price for value. Latin America was the one exception, our price was down as expected given the competitive dynamics in Brazil as we close out the safrinha season. Seed volume was down 1% compared to prior year. More corn acres in The U. S.

And favorable spring weather drove gains in North America that were offset by declines in other regions. Seed volume in EMEA and Latin America was down mostly due to seasonal timing shifts. Crop protection price was down 2% as expected driven by competitive market dynamics. Crop protection volume was up 5% with gains in nearly every region. Notably, new products delivered double digit volume gains in the quarter.

Operating EBITDA was up 15% over last year. Operating EBITDA margin of nearly 27% was up three ninety basis points, driven by organic sales growth coupled with significant benefits from lower input costs and productivity. Moving on to Slide seven for a summary of the first quarter operating EBITDA performance. Operating EBITDA was up more than $150,000,000 to just under $1,200,000,000 Price and mix, volume gains and cost benefits more than offset currency headwinds. Sea continues to make progress on its path to royalty neutrality with another $20,000,000 decrease in net royalty expense.

This improvement was driven by both increased out licensing income and lower trade licensing expense. Seeds and crop protection combined to deliver more than $200,000,000 in productivity and cost benefits, including lower seed commodity costs in all regions led by North America. In the first quarter, SG and A was up modestly compared to prior year driven by higher compensation and normalized bad debt accruals. The increased investment in R and D aligns with our target and is on track to reach 8% of sales for the full year. The higher costs were partially offset by a benefit from currency.

As expected, currency was roughly $90,000,000 headwind on EBITDA, driven by the Turkish lira and Canadian dollar. Both Seed and Crop Protection had an impressive first quarter and delivered double digit EBITDA growth and meaningful margin expansion. Moving on to slide eight for a remainder of the key sensitivities that could impact our full year results within the guidance range. At this point in the year, there are a few key factors that could drive results to the upper or lower end of our full year guidance. While the industry is expecting more corn acres in The U.

S. And our order books would support that, not all of crop is in the ground yet. So we need to finish up the North America season and see what ultimately gets planted. In Latin America, we're expecting increase in both summer and safrinha corn areas in Brazil and a partial recovery in corn area in Argentina after much of it was lost due to corn stunt in the past season. There are many factors that could still influence farmer decisions in the region and could impact our second half results.

We're now expecting crop protection prices to be down low single digits throughout the year, offset by high single digit volume growth. Demand for biologicals and new products continues to be strong and gives us confidence in our ability to deliver growth. We recognize that tariffs and global trade policy continue to be a source of uncertainty. Although our exposure to tariffs is expected to be manageable given the level of crop protection imports, associated costs and any potential mitigation actions are not factored into our guidance. Nevertheless, as Chuck mentioned earlier, tariffs should not impact our full year guidance range based on what we know today.

With that, let's go to slide nine and transition to the key assumptions for the first half and second half of the year. Driven by the strength of the first quarter, we now expect net sales for the first half to be about flat versus prior year with operating EBITDA up low to mid single digits driven by favorable timing and cost benefits and additional volume in the first half. As a reminder, this is stronger than we originally thought. In our original guidance that we provided back in February, we were assuming first half EBITDA would be about flat. CEDAR is expected to continue the momentum from the first quarter deliver solid organic growth in the first half of the year led by North America on more corn acres and a strong product lineup.

Crop protection is expected to deliver solid volume growth over prior year including double digit growth in biologicals and new products. Pricing will continue to be pressured as expected. Both Seed and Crop Protection will deliver significant benefits from lower input costs in the first half, while SG and A is expected to modestly increase compared to prior year. R and D is expected to be about flat in the first half. Turning to the second half of the year, we expect strong sales and operating EBITDA growth driven by low single digit price and double digit volume growth over last year.

Crop Protection operating EBITDA is expected to be roughly in line with the strong second half twenty twenty four results, while seed is expected to drive growth through price and volume gains. Seed price is expected to remain strong in the back half of the year driven by the strength of the portfolio in Latin America. While crop protection pricing is expected to continue at a rate of low single digit decline compared to prior year. Both seed and crop protection are expected to deliver double digit sales volume led by Latin America. We will continue to deliver cost savings in the second half of the year, but at a lower rate than the first half given the timing of crop protection deflation and productivity as well as timing of seed benefits due to the seasonality of the business.

Again, while we do not expect the net costs associated with tariffs to affect our full year guidance range, as of now any associated costs and impact from mitigation efforts will be weighted towards the second half of the year, given the timing of our crop protection inventory turns. And finally, currency. We expect about 50% of the full year headwind to be reflected in the second half of the year, driven by our exposures to the Brazilian real. To summarize, with our updated assumptions for the first and second half of the year, we remain on track for full year operating EBITDA of $3,700,000,000 with a few small changes to our original assumptions. We expect to deliver low single digit pricing gains for the year, but at a modestly lower rate than originally assumed.

And volume is expected to be higher now driven by increased North America corn acres and strong demand for crop protection as the market continues to stabilize. With that, let's go to slide 10 and summarize the key takeaways. First, while there's still much of the year left to go, we delivered an impressive performance in the first quarter ahead of expectations. Organic sales growth was driven by a continuation of our price for value strategy, strong North American seed deliveries and mid single digit volume gains in crop protection. We delivered more than $200,000,000 in cost savings from lower seed and crop protection raw material costs and productivity.

Together with organic sales growth in both businesses and improved product mix, this translated to three ninety basis points of margin expansion over prior year. The strong first quarter cash flow supports our ability to deliver the midpoint of our free cash flow to EBITDA guidance range of 40% to 45 conversion rate. And finally, we remain on track for $1,000,000,000 of share repurchases in 2025. With that, let me turn it back to Kim.

Thanks, David. Now let's move on to your questions. I would like to remind you that our cautions on forward looking statements and non GAAP measures apply to both our prepared remarks and the following Q and A. Operator, please provide the Q and A instructions.

You. We will now begin the question and answer session. Due to time constraints, we ask that you please limit yourself to one question to allow everyone an opportunity to ask a question. We'll take our first question from Chris Parkinson at Wolfe Research. And it looks like, we lost Chris' line, so we'll move next to Joel Jackson at BMO Capital Markets.

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Chuck, I thought, like, in your some of your very first few words on this call today, you talked about, you know, some risks in the back half that you will get into. So, you know, what you're guiding to is that the first half of the year will be something, like, 83, 80 four, 80 five percent of the full year. That leaves about 5 to $600,000,000 EBITDA for the second half of the year.

So, you know, like, there's not much play there. Like, how much how much risk upside downside is around the second half year? Are we talking 200,000,000, a hundred million? Can you maybe kinda quantify some of those comments? And because it is a pretty large on earnings that happened in first half of the year.

Yep. Well, good morning, Joel. Thanks for the question. So, here's how we're thinking about it. First of all, the first quarter.

Right? So close to $1,200,000,000.0400 bps of margin improvement, 15% increase, I think, in EBITDA, something like that. So it was a little better than we thought, to be candid with you. But as you know, the first quarter doesn't make the year, And we really don't like to move on guide in Q1, especially before the crop's in the ground. But Q1 was better than we thought.

If you now think about that for the first half, we actually think that the first half is going to be better than our original plan as well. So the second half of the year, the way we're thinking about it right now with what we can see looking forward is that it's it's been derisked since the February guide, which I think is a a good positive first step. Obviously, there's puts and takes, and I'll have David kinda walk through them. But to get to your question, the way I'm thinking about the second half now is is we we need crop protection, for example, in Brazil to do essentially what they did last year. So that was a strong quarter last year, if you recall, but but nothing more than that.

So I actually think that our guide, even though we've kept it the same, has been derisked pretty significantly. Now what we're looking at in in terms of the clouds, of course, over over the the future, the biggest one that I'll draw your attention to, then I'll let David talk about some of the financial levers, is really CP price. Down, you know, low single digits, we now believe we'll be down low single digits for the full year. That is reflected in the 3.7% or at least the 3.6% to the 3.8%. Could it go get worse than that?

Yes. Obviously, it could. Could it get better than that? Yes. But we feel that, again, the the the risk and when you look at the guide from three six to three eight, having the CP pricing down low single digits for the full year is reflected in that.

So overall, we're feeling very good about this. And then we'll like usual, Joel, we'll update the market with a full guide, puts and takes after the first half. But maybe, David, you could talk about currency and some of the other financial moves.

You know, if we step back, I just wanna remind our original guide was, you know, 10% EBITDA growth over prior year. And when we first thought about, you know, how the first half and second half would play out, we did expect the first half to be about flat to prior year. So now given the strength of the first quarter, I think we're back into the range. We said low to sing mid single digits. We're probably getting a little bit more refined there in the four to 5% range.

So if you look at what that might mean for the back half of the year, it's still a 40% increase over prior year. So it's still a pretty significant increase. It might not be so much in dollars because it's obviously a smaller half than our our first half, but still we found it prudent to kinda take some of the risks that we had in our original and start backing down that that back half. And as Chuck mentioned, a lot of that is assumption that CP will be pretty much in line with last year, and the benefits year over year will be primarily in seed. So when you think about the 300,000,000 or so increase in EBITDA dollars year over year, we're now assuming about the same first half and second half, so a little bit more balanced.

If we go into some of the actual drivers, and I think we tried to articulate this on slide eight a little bit. You know, where we are in FX, we had the 275 original guide. I would say right now, we're still in that that region. I mean, I would say that the first half, first quarter was 90,000,000. That's what we expected.

We expect about half of this impact to be in the first half. We still expect that to happen. The back half of the year, as we've articulated before, is mostly a BRL story. And as we look at our exposures, I mean, one of the things I wanna just remind everyone is not only the rate, but making sure that we can forecast and understand our exposures in the back half of the year. And when you look at those those two elements, you know, we feel like we're in the right range with two seventy five, million.

We talked about corn acres. Probably the one thing that Chuck had mentioned before was, you know, the one risk on crop protection pricing. We did say that probably a little bit softer than we expected going in our original guide. We're offsetting some of that with with volume. And then I'm sure we'll be talking quite a bit about trade policy and those sort of things.

But we are looking at the $50,000,000 impact to, you know, trade policy, and we're looking at how we mitigate that. So that's pretty much where we're balanced right now. And then I would assume after q two actuals, we'll then revisit not only these assumptions, Joel, but also, you know, interest and all those other things that go into the basis of our EPS guide.

We'll go next to Chris Parkinson at Wolfe Research.

I apologize. Was so excited to ask my question I accidentally hung up on you. I was talking about agriculture. I apologize. So guys, when you take a step back, obviously you've had a decent amount of success across your seed portfolio over the last few years and some would say, there's not much more to come.

But at the same time, you still have a lot of products left in terms of launches and the kind of the progression in both The United States and Latin America. And in Latin America, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems like corn planting could actually be in a much better place than it's been in the last two years. So can you just briefly speak about just across The Americas where you feel the most enthusiastic about what's left to come and perhaps of a little bit of longer term comment of what you're still enthusiastic about and where the street should be essentially re shifting its attention to? Thank you so much.

Good morning, Chris. So I'll have Judd take the question. But let me just remind you from a strategic perspective, there's really exciting things happening with our seed business. Our history has been that we've been a net importer licensee of technology. And what we're trying to do is strategically shift this to being an out licenser of technology.

And we're seeing really good, traction when it comes to that strategy. Enlist is sort of the poster child for that, but it's now happening in Enlist in Brazil. It's happening in corn. It's happening in canola. And then don't get me started about hybrid wheat because that's coming in the next three years, And we think that could be $1,000,000,000 of revenue opportunity at its peak.

And so the pipeline is, I'd far from getting peaked yet. In fact, I think the best is yet to come. But the way you've asked the question in terms of what's happening in certain regions, I'll have Jud answer that.

Yes. Chris, thanks for the question. And just maybe parlaying off of some of Chuck's comments about some of the spaces that we see as future growth potential. If you look at North America, of course, the talk has been consistently around are we going to put 95,000,000 acres of corn in the ground. That's obviously very favorable for us.

Our product portfolio is very, very strong right now. And we see not only pricing opportunities with additional productivity and yield that we're bringing in the portfolio, but also, again, just a larger planted area. Planning progress, we're kind of right on where we, typically see from a five year window, not ahead, not behind. We've got a few favorable weeks. So it looks like we have a very legitimate chance to put those 95,000,000 acres of corn in the ground.

E three performance has been extremely good as well. Our germplasm on the soybean side. So from a North American perspective, 2025 looks like it's gonna be another solid year of growth. It's shipped down to Latin America now. This will be the first time in what the last four or five years we've actually seen an expansion in summer corn planted area.

Local economics for growers in Brazil right now with ethanol expansion, which I think Chuck mentioned earlier in the call is really solid. So it's, you know, it's meriting more corn acres going into the ground, which is certainly a good thing. Safranha, mid single digit, low to mid single digit continued expansion as we get into the fourth quarter and we see the order book fill up and we start to recognize revenue for safrinha that will go in the ground after the first of the year. So feel very good about that. Chuck mentioned licensing.

We've had a big move. It was just down in Brazil a couple of weeks ago. We're working closely with a number of multipliers bringing new germplasm and obviously can keys to E3 and making it available to a significant large significantly larger percentage of the market. So we see a real opportunity for some lift there in margin expansion. So couldn't be more excited about where we are in North America right now.

We've got to get the crop in the ground. And the demand signals coming from Latin America good. And maybe just one final mention, our summer book and our safrinha book are well ahead of prior year's pace in terms of what we see coming on the corn side. So I hope that answers your question. Thanks, Chris.

We'll move next to Vincent Andrews at Morgan Stanley.

You and good morning. Chuck, wondering if you could color in your comments on the price environment and crop protection a little bit more. And in particular, what's driving sort of the change in the sort of trajectory or cadence of the negative pricing? It seems like it's a little bit less negative, but for a longer period of time. And is that uniform across markets and products?

And are you seeing anything different from the generic competitors today versus six, nine months ago and likewise versus your branded peers? Thank you.

Good morning, Vincent. So why don't I have Robert give perspective and then I'll come back with some higher level comments. Go ahead, Robert.

the year will dampen out as we get to the back part of the year as we begin to lap last year. And so question there about it looks like it's still there, but it's not as bad, is spot on. When you think about what's driving it and how does it look as we move forward, We're seeing some good signs of stabilizing coming out of China. The generics pricing out of there have been stable for several months. So that's encouraging, and that's something that we watch a whole lot.

This business has been a low single digit organic growth business for a long time when you look at it over the decades. And it'll return there. But we need to see we do need to see China's economy stabilize a little bit more, so that supply availability will tighten up a bit more. When we start to see those things, then we can start to think think more about where's the bottom, what that look like, etcetera. But we're in a pretty good position as we move across the rest of this year with our pricing, primarily because our growth is all going to come from our biologicals and new products.

And in those areas, as we've talked about before, we have a higher margin, higher premium on those because of higher technology and it's continued to be pulled by the farmers across as well. So we think we're in a good place as it pertains to pricing. It is something that Chuck talked about earlier that we are paying a lot of attention to. But you're correct that it will soften as we continue to move through the year. Chuck?

Yeah. Maybe, Vincent, just a couple of my thoughts on this market. So look, I think what we've seen over the last two to three years was almost unprecedented. And what it feels like to us now is that there's some stability underneath the market. It's not going up yet, but volumes are healthy going into the channel, but the channels now are much healthier than they have been for the last two or three years.

So they're in the healthy ranges, which is what we needed to see. So we're seeing good volume. There's good uptake in on farm demand is still quite healthy and strong. So farm behavior, which is underpinning all of this, is is really quite healthy. And now what we're watching is just the generics coming out of Asia, and that seems to hit have hit a floor as well.

So that's another positive indication. But, look, this is a competitive market. It's well supplied. You've got higher interest rates, so the channel is being very selective. All these things are weighing on the price volume dynamic.

But when we sit here today, we're more encouraged today than we have been in some time. What we'll need to see now though is we need to see sort of the generic pricing start to tick up a little bit in pricing. And that should turn the corner on the industry. One last comment is on Brazil. So Brazil is it's it's gonna have more acres as Jud referenced.

I think the channel is a lot healthier than it has been. And so we're optimistic that we've seen sort of, at least for now, the recovery for in Brazil is is well underway. And that is a critical market for Corteva, as you know.

We'll move to our next question from Kevin McCarthy at Vertical Research Partners.

Yes. Thank you and good morning. Chuck, I realize it's been less than six months since your Capital Markets Day in New York, but I thought you might provide a brief update on the two new growth platforms that you unveiled there. It sounds like you're still excited about wheat. Maybe talk a little bit about the ramp to the economic opportunity.

Are you still on track for a 2027 launch in hybrid red winter wheat? And any update on the winter canola for biofuels as you expand that pilot program?

Yes. Good morning, Kevin. Happy to do it. So on wheat, as I mentioned, it is you think about wheat, and we said this at the Capital Markets Day, it's the largest row crop by area, so 500,000,000 acres worldwide. And if we can do what we did for corn almost one hundred years ago and hybridize it, it will move the needle from a technology perspective for farmers, and it will actually put a dent in global food security on a positive scale.

So this is a big deal for the world, we believe. Corteva has what we consider to be a proprietary sterility system, which will change the economics for farmers, and we will be able to bring genetic gain to wheat. So that is really what we're trying to do. The crop that we had through our test plots this year, we'll be able to harvest them very soon in the next, I'd say, weeks. But we think that the initial unlock of yield will be somewhere between 1020%.

And we our intention is to be a leader in this area and to do a combination of providing our own technology, but also to license the technology. And we are still on track for 2027 launch. And as I mentioned, this could be $1,000,000,000 of revenue at its peak. So pretty exciting initiative that the team at Corteva is very excited with. Now winter canola.

So this is the second year of our pilot program. This is happening in six or seven states in the South here in The US. The crop did survive the winter quite well. Again, it'll be later this month when we run it through and check out the yields. But all systems are go on biofuels using canola, and we're really excited about this.

And this coming season, we'll actually expand it from 30,000 acres approximately to maybe even in the hundreds of thousands of acres. So it's it's starting to gain a lot of momentum. And, the reason that there's so much interest in this is farmers have choice. So farmers can plant winter wheat or they can go to a canola option now, and it's quite profitable for them. And then this is in conjunction with our relationship with Bunge and Chevron, where Bunge will take the crop and crush it into the oil, and Chevron will move it into their biofuels.

So this is a kind of a win win win across the board and I think farmers in the South are very excited about having options here.

We'll move to our next question from Josh Spector at UBS.

I wanted to ask two quick ones with the guidance around the tariff impact. So it's a little bit confusing where you call out the $50,000,000 impact. You say actions are ongoing, but then your guidance says that you don't include the tariff impacts within there. So can you clarify, I guess, that assumption, what you're baking in there? And just to follow-up quickly on the FX side of things, I just want to be clear if that Brazilian real exposure is locked in or if there's just we're not sure where rates are going be in a few months from now when we're leaving that assumption unchanged.

Good morning, Josh. Let me take the tariff question and then David can handle the Brazil real. So the way we're thinking about this is after a lot of work in this area, we've been able, what I would say, is to reduce the overall macro tariff impact on Corteva to around this CHF 50,000,000 that we communicated today. And we have, we feel, very strong pathways to mitigate a lot more of this, but we need a little bit more time to finalize the action. So because of that, chose not to include it in the guidance range for now.

As well as $50,000,000 with a $200,000,000 guidance range, it's very manageable. But when we get to the first half, we will hopefully have a lower number and we can give the net impact in our guide. And the reason we chose to keep it separated just for one more quarter is because we felt it was important for investors to be able to see the core business unobstructed by tariffs. And we have, I think, lot of mitigation steps that are going to bear fruit here. So that's the thinking today, and we'll update the market as we know more.

We're being very transparent that the number today would be 50,000,000. But we feel that through network optimization, further cost productivity actions, we can move a long way down the scale of reducing that further. David, the Brazil real?

Yeah. So if you look at the Brazil real, I think most people we mentioned this before. Our exposure is definitely back half related. So and about 85% of our total BRL exposure is in the back half of the year. As we sit here today, we are hedged at over 80% for q three and just under 20% for q four.

And we always layer that in as the exposures become more clear as we progress through the year. So I think if you look at where we're able to forward hedge that right now, we're just under the six point o that we had put in our original guide. So I would say that that's slightly favorable to where we are right now. We're also looking at our exposures have gone up a little bit as we expect a little bit more volume and a little less price in Brazil. So all in all, I'd say pretty balanced right now.

Again, we'll have a little bit more clarity at the end of q two, and I'm sure we will update this assumption.

Next, we'll move to David Begleiter at Deutsche Bank.

Hi. This is Emily Fusco on for Dave Begleiter. So with a likely further share shift in Chinese soybean imports from The U. S. To Brazil, how is Corteva positioned for this?

And how much more profitable are soybean sales in The US than Brazil? You.

Yep. So good morning, Emily. Let's step back, and then I'll have Judd talk about profitability between corn and soybeans for at least for Corteva. But the way we're thinking about this right now is farmers today are really focused on getting the crop into the ground. You can see the area shift, right?

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