Marissa, Illinois
August 14, 2009

Tri State Seed Co. has been named distributor for Seed Consultants Inc. (SCI) seed in the Midwest and mid-South. Based in Marissa, Ill., Tri State has locations in Bowling Green, Mo., Central City, Ky., and Greenville, Mississippi.

“This provides a unique opportunity for SCI to grow into southern Illinois and the mid-South,” says SCI president Chris Jeffries in Washington Court House, Oh. SCI already has six research locations in southern Illinois (Sandoval, Charleston, Grayville, Mason City, Galesburg and Askum) and research plots in southern Indiana. In addition, SCI’s main genetic supplier has a breeding station in southern Illinois and selects varieties for the southern environment.

“One of the reasons we went with Seed Consultants is they’re just huge in research and testing,” says Joe Kordes, Tri State seed sales manager. “They have a complete line through PROaccess [Genetics] that gives us a great variety of high yielding corn soybean and wheat varieties.” Seed Consultant’s 3.9 maturity soybean, SCS 9398 RR, ranked No. 1 in University of Kentucky’s seed trials in 2008.

 

Pictured left to right are Clete Miller, Missouri area sales manager; Alan Schmidt, Tri State Seed Co. owner; Ross Abert, financial manager; Rickie Cox, Mississippi area sales manager; and Joe Kordes, seed sales manager.

Tri State owner Alan Schmidt started the crop protection materials company in 1998 and branched into seed. “They have great germplasm and are a good company with good management. They will give us the agronomic support we need as a company.”

Seed Consultants Inc. evaluates genetics at more than 105 testing sites.

Website: http://www.seedconsultants.com

Published: August 14, 2009