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.
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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. |
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