Peterson Farms Seed confident in seed supply and quality

An Upper Midwest seed company is confident there will be enough
high-quality corn and soybean seed available this spring.

Peterson Farms Seed general manager Scott Sanders says overall supply could be an issue in some parts of the Corn Belt because of weather challenges in 2018.

“We over-produce (seed), I think we’re going to have more than enough on a general level for all of our customers. We might run out of certain maturities depending on how sales go, but overall we don’t have too much concern.”

He tells Brownfield Peterson uses data points generated from the largest independent seed replication testing in the region to maintain germination standards near 94 percent.

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