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Atlanta, Indiana and Neoga,
Illinois
June 9, 2009
Beck’s Hybrids and
Brown Seed Enterprises
have entered into an alliance that combines the strengths of
both companies to enhance the products and services offered to
farmers in central and southern Illinois.
Brown Seed Enterprises is known for extensive research and
testing in southern Illinois to indentify the top performing
products in that geography. Beck’s Hybrids, located in central
Indiana, is the largest family-owned retail seed company in the
United States and brings additional sources of products to the
research that Brown Seed is conducting. Dennis Brown, President
and Owner of Brown Seed Enterprises says, “I am excited about
the additional products that this arrangement with Beck’s will
provide my customers. Higher yields, more traits, better
agronomics, and more customer services will result from this
alliance that our company has formed with Beck’s.”
Brown Seed Enterprises’ facilities will also be exclusively used
by Beck’s for conditioning, packaging, warehousing and shipping
of Beck’s seed to customers in central and southern Illinois,
southwest Indiana and Kentucky. “Utilizing seed facilities in
the Effingham, IL area will enhance our ability to serve
customers in our southern marketing region,” says Scott Beck,
Vice President of Beck’s Hybrids.
Brown Seed Enterprises has marketed seed through the Arise brand
since 1990. Brown says, “With the formation of this alliance, we
are bringing our customers a more complete line of corn,
soybean, wheat, alfalfa and forage products which are available
through Beck’s Hybrids. This change from Arise to Beck’s Hybrids
is the next step in the progression of our family-owned seed
business. Our alliance with Beck’s enables us to remain
independent and continue to do southern Illinois research and
seed conditioning, which are the things that I have built this
company on and have strived to help our customers with. Perhaps
more importantly, the culture of our two companies is similar in
terms of putting the farmer first and treating them with
integrity.” Farmers will have an opportunity to look at Beck’s
products at Brown Seed’s annual field day this summer.
“Dennis’ extensive knowledge of the soils and climate in
southern Illinois combined with the additional products that we
can evaluate in his research and testing program will bring a
new level of support for farmers in that region. We are excited
about this alliance”, says Sonny Beck, President of Beck’s
Hybrids.
Beck’s Hybrids is a family-owned and operated seed company
that serves farmers in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and
Kentucky. According to a recent media survey, Beck’s ranks as
the sixth largest seed company in the United States and the only
one in the top six that is family-owned, making Beck’s the
largest retail, family-owned seed company in the United States.
Brown Seed Enterprises is a family owned and operated seed
company that Dennis Brown started in 1983, with a focus on the
unique soils and needs of the southern Illinois farmer. Brown
Seed has extensive experience in research, breeding, and seed
production, with a state-of-the-art seed conditioning and
warehouse facility built in 2007. |
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