Fontanelle, Nebraska
August 18, 2003

As a growing company in a business with complex inventory and processing needs, Fontanelle Hybrids, Fontanelle, Nebraska needed more space and additional equipment. It found it next door to the existing Fontanelle Fremont Production Plant.

“We’ve been needing additional warehouse space,” Dave Monke, production manager said. “Plus we’d been looking at adding new soybean processing equipment, including a new tower. And, with the new seed applied technology that is coming into the market right now, we have been looking at adding a new treater, but didn’t have the room for it in our existing facility. By acquiring the property next to us that had been used as a seed facility, we were able to accomplish our goal of expansion and to have a good starting base for our specific seed handling needs.”

As one of the top 35 seed companies in the United States, Fontanelle continues its commitment to provide a full line up of seed products to its customers. This means that new products, new product types and new seed treatments are entering the current offerings to customers at an extremely fast pace. “This year alone we are introducing 28 new products in our corn, soybeans and sorghum product lines,” Steve Pike, sales manager said. “Introducing new products at this pace involves production issues from growing the seed all the way through processing it up to our quality standards and then maintaining that quality with proper warehousing. By purchasing the nearby Fremont production plant from our neighbors, JC Robinson Seeds, Waterloo, NE, we are ensuring that we can continue to provide our customers with the quality Fontanelle products they’ve come to trust.”

Fontanelle Hybrids is a 68 year old employee-owned seed company marketing corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, alfalfa and sunflowers in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri and portions of Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Texas. Fontanelle Hybrids is one of the five owners and members of the Core Group that markets value added products under the High Cycle^® Seed Systems brand of products.