| I 100% agree with most of what you’ve said. I also work with an independent seed company, but out of Minnesota.
JayThomps - 3/13/2024 08:58
In all honesty, if you're not planting Dekalb, Channel, Pioneer, Brevant, Golden Harvest, or NK and you're planting an independent companies seed, you're still planting Bayer, Corteva or Syngenta germplasm. It's very rare to find a company that has their own germplasm and rarer still to find the hybrid that that company created. The major issue is these 3 companies have a strangle hold on seed, corn and soybeans, and they control well over 90% of the market.
It is rare, but not impossible. This is not a complete list, but here are some:
BASS Hybrids - Minnesota
Summit Genetics - Iowa
O’Brien Hybrids - Wisconsin
These companies do also license in genetics besides developing their own for a diverse lineup, but they will HAPPILY avoid the big company genetics if you tell them you want to specifically avoid them. And you won’t sacrifice yield! BASS and Summit have big research arms with multistate yield trial locations. O’Brien has some stellar hybrids they’ve developed, including one that won the Wisconsin state trials.
If planting GMO traits, there’s no real way to get away from the big companies. Planting conventional corn from an independent company with their own breeding program will.
Edited by cornbreederperson 3/13/2024 10:23
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Corn seed availability?
