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Restructuring and Asset Related Charges
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Restructuring and Related Activities Disclosure [Text Block] RESTRUCTURING AND ASSET RELATED CHARGES - NET
Crop Protection Operations Strategy Restructuring Program
On November 5, 2023, management of the company approved a plan to further optimize its Crop Protection network of manufacturing and external partners (the "Crop Protection Operations Strategy Restructuring Program"). The plan includes the exit of the company’s production activities at its site in Pittsburg, California, as well as ceasing operations in select manufacturing lines at other locations. In October 2024, management of the company amended the Crop Protection Operations Strategy Restructuring Program to include updates to its previous estimates and decommissioning and demolition costs associated with the ceasing of operations, primarily at the Pittsburg, California site.

The company expects to record aggregate pre-tax restructuring and asset related charges of $650 million to $700 million, comprised of $85 million to $105 million of severance and related benefit costs, $320 million to $340 million of asset-related and impairment charges, and $245 million to $255 million of costs related to exiting the company's production activities and ceasing operations (inclusive of decommissioning and demolition costs and contract terminations). Decommissioning and demolition costs are expensed on an as-incurred basis. Reductions in workforce are subject to local regulatory requirements. Through the year ended December 31, 2025, the company recorded net pre-tax restructuring and asset related charges of $611 million inception-to-date under the Crop Protection Operations Strategy Restructuring Program, consisting of $102 million of severance and related benefit costs, $340 million of asset-related and impairment charges, $70 million of decommissioning and demolition costs and $99 million of costs related to contract terminations. The pre-tax restructuring and asset related charges noted above include charges relating to spare parts write-offs recognized during the fourth quarter of 2023, which impacted the Crop Protection segment, and were included in cost of goods sold, in the company's Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2023. See Note 22 - Segment Information, to the Consolidated Financial Statements, for additional information.

Cash payments related to these charges are anticipated to be $330 million to $360 million, which primarily relate to the payment of severance and related benefits, decommissioning and demolition costs and contract terminations. Through December 31, 2025, the company paid $177 million associated with these charges. The restructuring actions associated with these charges are expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2026.
The following table is a summary of charges incurred related to the Crop Protection Operations Strategy Restructuring Program for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
For the Year Ended December 31,
(In millions)202520242023
Severance and related benefit costs 1
$11 $91 $— 
Asset related charges 2,3
13 101 214 
Decommissioning and demolition costs 2
60 10 — 
Contract termination charges 2
66 30 3 
Total restructuring and asset related charges - net 4
$150 $232 $217 
1.Reflects corporate related charges.
2.Reflects charges which are substantially all associated with the Crop Protection segment.
3.Asset-related charges includes impairment charges related to operating lease assets and property, plant and equipment.
4.This amount excludes charges relating to spare parts write-offs included in cost of goods sold for the year ended December 31, 2023, in the company's Consolidated Statement of Operations.

The following table summarizes changes to liability balances related to the Crop Protection Operations Strategy Restructuring Program for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively:

(In millions)Severance and Related Benefit Costs
Asset Related Charges1
Decommissioning and Demolition CostsContract Termination ChargesTotal
Balance at December 31, 2023$— $— $— $— $— 
Charges to income from continuing operations91 101 10 30 232 
Payments(21)— (10)(30)(61)
Asset write-offs— (101)— — (101)
Balance at December 31, 2024$70 $— $— $— $70 
Charges to income from continuing operations11 13 60 66 150 
Payments(49)— (52)(12)(113)
Asset write-offs— (13)— — (13)
Balance at December 31, 2025$32 $— $8 $54 $94 
1.Asset-related charges includes impairment charges related to operating lease assets and property, plant and equipment.

Other Asset Related Charges
The company holds a non-exclusive license in the United States and Canada for the Monsanto Company's Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® glyphosate tolerance trait and Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® glyphosate and dicamba tolerance trait for soybeans, which was obtained by the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (“Pioneer”) (“Roundup Ready 2 License Agreement”). Each of these licensed technologies are now trademarks of the Bayer Group, which acquired the Monsanto Company in 2018. The prepaid royalty asset relates to a series of up-front, fixed and variable royalty payments to utilize the traits in Pioneer’s soybean product mix. The company’s historical expectation was that the technology licensed under the Roundup Ready 2 License Agreement would be used as the primary herbicide tolerance trait platform in the Pioneer® brand soybean through the term of the agreement. Dow Agrosciences LLC and MS Technologies, L.L.C. jointly developed and own the Enlist E3TM herbicide tolerance trait for soybeans which provides tolerance to 2,4-D choline in Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides, as well as glyphosate and glufosinate herbicides. In connection with the validation of breeding plans and large-scale product development timelines, during 2019 the company committed to accelerate the ramp up of the Enlist E3TM trait platform in the company’s soybean portfolio mix across all brands, including Pioneer® brands. Due to the five-year ramp-up of Enlist E3TM, the company significantly reduced the volume of products with the Roundup Ready 2 Yield® and Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® herbicide tolerance traits, with expected minimal use of the trait platform thereafter for the remainder of the Roundup Ready 2 License Agreement (the “Transition Plan”). The rate of royalty expense had therefore increased significantly through higher amortization of the prepaid royalty as fewer seeds containing the respective trait were expected to be utilized.

In connection with the departure from these traits, beginning January 1, 2020 the company presents and discloses the non-cash accelerated prepaid royalty amortization expense as a component of restructuring and asset related charges - net, in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the company recognized $— million, $55 million and $72 million, respectively, in restructuring and asset related charges - net in the Consolidated
Statements of Operations, from non-cash accelerated prepaid royalty amortization expense related to Roundup Ready 2 Yield® and Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® herbicide tolerance traits, which as of the end of the second quarter of 2024 was complete.