Beck's Hybrids
Beck's Hybrids is the largest family-owned retail seed company in the United States, serving farmers across the Midwest. Beck's understands what farmers need, because they are farmers also. As a family-owned seed company, Beck's has access to the best genetics and trait technologies from suppliers world-wide. In fact, Beck's strives to provide all customers with the tools they need to succeed on their farm.
Not only does Beck's provide outstanding genetic and trait technologies, they also strive to provide farmers with additional resources. These resources include Commitment Rewards, Practical Farm Research, and FARMserver, Beck's in-house precision ag service.
Viking Seed
Viking and Yankton Seed House are making some changes that will benefit our customers by making us a more focused company.
What's happening?
- Viking Corn & Soybeans (which is owned by Albert Lea Seed) is becoming a 100% non-traited brand that will develop and market non-GMO and Organic corn, soybeans
and alfalfa seed.
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Focusing on What We Know Best
The reason for the change is simple: It's time for us to focus on what we know best, which is developing, testing and supplying non-traited seed. For a decade, the fastest-growing part of
Viking and Yankton Seed House has been conventional non-GMO and Organic seed. We support all streams of agriculture, but we don't have the resources to develop traited seed and compete with Syngenta, Monsanto and Dow/DuPont. But we do have the resources and the passion to develop and deliver the best conventional non-GMO hybrids, varieties and
innovation to those farmers that need them.
In practical terms, this means that Viking no longer develop and sell traited seeds (such as Roundup Ready soybeans or Genuity SmartStax corn).