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  • From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fwd: [sno-valley-tilth] Organic Veg Farmerswhouse Semin
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:22:17 -0500

When you go to that link, note that you are in the home garden seed section. On the left column there is a link to professional grower seed products. That is a much larger category. You’ll find much more there.

 

Seminis, before becoming owned by Monsanto, was made large by buying Petoseed, which had also grown by acquisition, mostly west coast seed companies. After acquiring Petoseed, Seminis purchased the vegetable seed division of Asgrow. So, for example, the tomato varieties Sunstart, Sunbrite and Florida 47 are products of Asgrow’s breeding program. While there may be more to their seedlist, I was familiar with the product lines of these other companies and I don’t see much missing from the lists they posted. Certainly their best varieties are on there. I didn’t see anything that was GMO either, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they have something available.

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu


There is this:

 


Ryan Platte
Bootstrap Acres, Rochester NY
http://bootstrapacres.com/

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net> wrote:

They must have somewhere a list of varieties available for wholesalers to buy, but they're not necessarily going to make it easy for someone who isn't a seed company to get the list; and, not being a seed company, I don't know what route is usually taken to get at such lists. There's no complete list I can find posted on the websites of Seminis or of Monsanto (it may be there somewhere, but I can't find it.)

 




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