Seed Today

Expanded seed production plants and research farms in the Willamette Valley are featured in our Third Quarter issue, including DLF North America, Mountain View Seeds, and Smith Seed Services. Plus, see the Ride Between the Rows series, featuring Beck's Hybrids: https://shorturl.at/GGFSm

Members of the Atlantic Seed Association during their Annual Convention Oct. 3 took an up-close look at the turf at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, PA. Seed Today Editor Chris Lusvardi provides a look at what they saw and heard during the convention, which also included a tour of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA: https://shorturl.at/5ettp

Sakata Seed America, Inc. announced the grand opening of its new headquarters, the Sakata Woodland Innovation Center. This state-of-the-art facility, located on 219 acres of prime agricultural land in Yolo County, California, marks a significant milestone in the company's commitment to advancing agricultural innovation and sustainability: https://shorturl.at/ShD4J

KSi selected as the 2024 Kansas Governor’s Exporter of the Year: https://shorturl.at/teFWS

Beck's Hybrids announced the acquisition of the BASF Research Station in Beaver Crossing, NE, which will be named Beck’s Goehner West Research Station (Goehner West). The 400-acre research farm will enhance Beck’s breeding program to support central and western U.S. farmers. The location is just two miles west of Beck’s 100-acre facility acquired in 2021 for sales support, distribution, product testing, and Practical Farm Research (PFR)?: https://shorturl.at/6gL9h

Renovo Seed announced the addition of a new forage mix, OptiHarv, into their portfolio at the 2024 World Dairy Expo.?The mix is a diverse blend of millets, peas, beans, barley, and brassicas that produces immense tonnage for baleage, haylage, or grazing. The season-long growth provides high quality TMR and allows for multiple harvests from just one field: https://shorturl.at/T41KQ

Clemson Cooperative Extension Service experts say rain and wind from Hurricane Helene could pose problems for crops during harvest time for many farmers in South Carolina: https://shorturl.at/yUeYr

Rijk Zwaan opened a newly built trial station in Vietnam, located in the horticultural hub of Lam Dong. This station will accelerate the development of vegetable varieties for the specific needs of Southeast Asian growers and the region’s fresh produce market: https://shorturl.at/lbdCS

KWS Group will be joining a research project for the development of sustainable baking wheat varieties. KWS will contribute to the research project with its breeding expertise. KWS has long been working with genotypes that deliver good baking wheat quality even with a lower protein content – and thus with less input: https://shorturl.at/oMmrM

Keen Project Solutions, LLC is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Founded in August 2014 by Matt Frandsen, Cory Larson, and Dustin Waters in Ames, IA, Keen Project Solutions has become a leading name in the engineering, procurement, and construction industry. Based in Ankeny, IA, the company continues to deliver innovative and high-quality projects to clients across North America: https://shorturl.at/SIIN1