date:Jul 28, 2014
ts global workforce in the low single digits in percentage terms, company spokesman Dan Turner said in an email. He did not specify a timeframe for the job cuts.
DuPont, founded in 1802 to make gunpowder, now gets more than a third of its sales from the farm business after pushing into agriculture, energy and specialty materials to insulate itself from volatile businesses such as performance chemicals.
But that push has cost the company, as it did No 1 seed maker Monsanto Co, as farmers in N