Home field advantage.(regional seed companies will score in their own...

Farm Journal;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Regional seed companies still score in their own markets...the fate of small and mid-sized seed companies in a presentation at Purdue University...held by privately owned, regional seed companies, but focused is a more appropriate...

Best of both worlds: regional seed companies thrive on joint...

Top Producer;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Partnering allows regional seed companies to be tough competitors while maintaining...brand has been shared with four other seed companies to create a marketing umbrella and...brands resonates with other regional seed companies. In recent years, several have merged...

New Deal for Seed.

Farm Journal;  January 23, 2005 ;     683 words ......market is served by scores of smaller seed companies that must license genetics and traits...of all seed corn. Though independent seed companies relish the competition among suppliers...Sometimes the cash is more appealing to seed companies than competing with big companies that...

Make Seed Traits Count.

Farm Journal;  July 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ......coming. Watch for another brand of glyphosate-tolerant corn in seed catalogs this fall. Jack...hundred thousand acres worth of its glyphosate-tolerant corn trait, Agrisure GT, in 2005. We...Agrisure CB in 2006. About 50 seed companies in addition to our own ...

Companies sprout new seed choices: an abundance of options are ready to...

Farm Journal;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......seed products for 2004 that even the seed companies struggle to keep track. With all the...to test some new stuff next spring, seed companies may strike last-minute deals on a few...want returned to inventory. As always, seed companies offer the best pricing and finance...

OREGON FIRM ANSWERS REGIONAL SEED NEED.(Life and Arts)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 3, 2008 ;     700+ words ......soil and hot nights to thrive. Big seed companies saw home gardeners as a perfect market...home gardening blossomed, so did small seed companies. Frustrated by the lack of regionally...Best of all, everything that small seed companies offered, from tomatoes to salad greens...

Biotech's high stakes.(Analysis)

Farm Journal;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Ready 2 corn trait. Seed companies licensing the technology...effort to cash in on seed and traits, Syngenta...Syngenta acquired glyphosate-tolerant corn technology from Bayer...needs access to the seed market to sell traits...tolerance. Adoption of ...

Monsanto's technology fees.

The Kiplinger Agriculture Letter;  June 29, 2001 ;     91 words ......corn. The firm instead will require seed companies to pay royalties to market the biotech seeds. Seed companies can adjust their prices to reflect...competitive pricing environment among seed companies as they try to increase their market...

NEW PLANT VARIETIES KEEP POPPING UP.(LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  February 22, 1997 ;     517 words ......Knight-Ridder News Service The fertile minds at seed companies never rest from their task of developing...of the nation's amateur gardeners, seed companies fill their books with dozens of new...painstaking work by breeders employed at seed companies or experiment stations run by ...

Put Seed Costs In Perspective.

Farm Journal;  October 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ......you pay as you go. That's how several seed companies are pitching high-priced, technology-load...is more valuable than it used to be. Seed companies stress the fact that the higher prices...spending a lot more money in one place. Seed companies offering corn traits licensed by ...

Nebraska seed companies being bought out by larger, distant firms.

Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ......reveals a multitude of established seed companies that Nebraska farmers have relied on...shows that many of the traditional seed companies are now owned by large corporations...and Iowa had a number of independent seed companies. But after American Seeds bought Fontanelle...

[ Business ]

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  April 24, 2001 ;     249 words ...- Seed companies find biotech contamination --- Dozens of small seed companies have found corn seed contaminated with traces...seed from being planted," Herglotz said. Large seed companies and firms that were licensed to sell the biotech...

U.S. GOVERNMENT, AMERICAN SEED COMPANIES PROVIDE FLOOD ASSISTANCE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 22, 2006 ;     210 words ......hybrid maize seed free of charge from Monsanto and Pioneer seed companies and the U.S. Government. It is expected that 2,000 farmers...USAID purchased US$100,000 worth of seeds from the two U.S. seed companies, Pioneer and Monsanto, both of which provided a 100% matching...

Corn Seed Found Contaminated

AP Online;  March 1, 2001 ;     486 words ......industry officials said Thursday. Seed companies detected the genetically engineered...would be evaluating data submitted by seed companies. He said he is ``confident that the...are working as they were intended.'' Seed companies ``have got a responsibility to not...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch business briefs column.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 3, 2005 ;     241 words ......MONSANTO UNIT BUYS 5 REGIONAL SEED COMPANIES: A subsidiary of Monsanto...has acquired five regional seed companies for a total of about $52 million...association of family-based seed companies, will be combined as another...