Corteva Settlement: Minnesota Names a $1.25 Million Share, So Four States Now Claim More Than $21 Million of the $35 Million — but as of October 20, 2026 We Found No Signed Order, No Claim Form, and Corteva Has Split in Two

As of October 20, 2026, four of the 12 states in the Corteva settlement have said how much of the $35 million they expect. The newest figure we found is Minnesota’s. Its attorney general’s September 28 release says the order requires Corteva to pay the states “$35 million to resolve their monetary claims, including $1.25 million to Minnesota.” Our earlier coverage could not load that release; this is the first time we have the figure from the source.

The four published shares:

• Nebraska: “over $10 million” (release dated October 2, 2026).
• Illinois: about $7.5 million, which the Illinois attorney general says it expects to “Return … to Affected Illinois Farmers.”
• Iowa: “approximately $2.4 million” (Iowa attorney general), the figure KGAN/CBS2 Iowa reported.
• Minnesota: $1.25 million.

Together that is more than $21.15 million. That leaves less than $13.85 million for the other eight states: California, Colorado, Indiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin (our arithmetic). We found no current published figure for any of those eight. The split is the states’ business alone. Under the stipulated order, Corteva pays “pursuant to an allocation to be provided to Corteva by the Plaintiff States” and has “no responsibility or influence” over it.

No money moves until Judge Schroeder signs the order. The FTC puts it this way: “Stipulated orders have the force of law when approved and signed by the District Court judge.” The joint motion (Document 545) was filed on September 25, 2026 and was submitted to the judge on September 30. The court record we checked through CourtListener shows only two filings after that: notices that individual lawyers for Iowa (September 29) and for Illinois and Nebraska (October 15) were withdrawing from the case. We found no order. CourtListener mirrors the court’s record, but it is not PACER itself, so we cannot rule out a filing it has not picked up. As of October 20, 2026, the FTC’s case page still shows “Last Updated September 28, 2026” and the status “Pending.”

Once the order is entered, Corteva must pay “within 30 calendar days of the entry by the Court of this Stipulated Order.” That applies if the states send complete payment instructions at least ten calendar days before the deadline. If the instructions come later, Corteva has 15 calendar days from receiving them. The money then goes to state accounts, not to individuals. Each attorney general decides how to use it “in their sole discretion.” One of the permitted uses is “for distribution to farmers as deemed appropriate by any State’s Attorney General, including for a restitutionary purpose.” Others include attorneys’ fees and state antitrust funds.

There is no claim form for the $35 million. None of the releases we read, from the FTC, Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois or Iowa, describes a form, a deadline or a settlement administrator. Illinois is still the only state that says its share is for farmers, and it has not said how it will pay them or who counts as an “affected” farmer. Minnesota describes the farmers’ benefit as lower prices, not checks: the settlement “will provide relief to farmers who have long endured high pesticide prices by ensuring greater access to lower-cost generic pesticide products.” If you farm in Illinois, the Illinois attorney general’s office is the place to watch for any payment process.

The money set aside for farmers by name is in a different case: In re Crop Protection Products Loyalty Program Antitrust Litigation, No. 1:23-md-03062 (M.D.N.C.), before the same judge. KGAN/CBS2 Iowa, citing the Iowa attorney general’s office, describes it as “an $85 million class-action settlement reached in July involving more than 100,000 farmers.” As of October 20, 2026, we found no ruling granting it preliminary approval, no settlement website and no claim form. The latest entry on the CourtListener docket is a notice of change of address filed on October 19, 2026, and the last order listed is an August 25 order extending a deadline. The states have agreed in their own order that they will not “challenge or contest the validity” of that class settlement. When it opens for claims, a court-approved notice will name the administrator and the deadline.

As of October 20, 2026, nobody has to pay a fee or hand over bank details to get money from either Corteva deal. The $35 million goes from Corteva to the states, and the $85 million class settlement has no claim process yet. The FTC’s release says: “The FTC will never demand money, make threats, tell you to transfer money, or promise you a prize.”

Treat as suspect any message that asks for a fee, your Social Security number or a bank login to “register” you for a Corteva settlement. A real state payment program will be announced on your attorney general’s own website. The class settlement will have a court-approved notice that names its administrator. Messages about the Vylor spin-off are a separate matter. Corteva shareholders who received Vylor shares in the spin-off should check any such message against Corteva’s filings with the SEC.

Corteva split in two on October 1, 2026. According to Corteva’s September 30 filing with the SEC, its board approved spinning off the seed business as an independent public company, Vylor Inc., on September 12. The Des Moines Register reported that the separation was completed on October 1. That happened after a federal court denied a California-led request by states, cities and counties to stop it. They alleged the split was “an effort to shield company assets from claims related to PFAS,” the so-called forever chemicals. Corteva rejected the allegations and said it had never made or sold PFAS products. The Register reports that Vylor is based in Johnston, Iowa, while the company that keeps the Corteva name stays in Indianapolis.

The fight is not over. In an October 2026 filing with the SEC, Corteva reports that “15 states and one sovereign” sued in the Southern District of Indiana on October 1 to challenge the separation. On October 9 that court issued a temporary restraining order. It barred Corteva and its subsidiary EIDP from disposing of assets outside the ordinary course of business, and it barred dividends and share buybacks. On October 10 the court stayed that order while Corteva, EIDP and Vylor appeal to the Seventh Circuit. Corteva says the motion and the appeal “remain pending.” These are allegations, which Corteva “strongly contests.”

Does the split affect the $35 million settlement? The order was written with the split in mind. If the planned separation happens, “Corteva” in the order includes “any entity resulting from the Separation engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing, selling, or distributing pesticides or crop protection products.” The pesticide rules therefore bind the company that keeps the pesticide business. The PFAS cases are about chemical contamination, not pesticide prices. A farmer looking for pesticide money gets nothing from them, and a PFAS claim does not run through this settlement.

Is Corteva a private company? No. Corteva’s common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CTVA, according to its SEC filings. What was Corteva previously? According to the Des Moines Register, DuPont and Dow Chemical merged in a deal finalized two years after it was announced in 2015. In 2019 the combined company spun off its agriculture business as Corteva Agriscience.