2024

• HM.Clause
  Our agricultural achievements can be traced back to the 1700’s. HM.CLAUSE has perfected our breeding and production processes over generations of passion, innovation and dedication to our craft. As a forerunner in our industry, we dedicate our intense efforts for Research and Development.
  - Over 200 years of innovative breeding experience
  - Collaborating with local farmers for sustainable solutions
  - 27% of our workforce involved
  - 3 global research centers, based in France and California
  - 22 crop programs
  - Research efforts fully integrated into our breeding programs.
   
• Bayer Vegetable Seeds
  As an innovative vegetable seed company who’s also a world leader in human health and nutrition and horticulture, we are driven to deliver health for all and hunger for none.
  But we can’t do it alone. Working together, we can ensure that every seed grows beautifully, harvests efficiently, sells quickly, transports easily, and provides the flavor people want – and the nutrition they need.

Panelists
Vikas Vikram Global digital and process enablement Bayer	TBA Bayer	Andres Navarro Melon Breeder HM.Clause	Toy Reda Research Assistant, Hot Pepper HM.Clause	TBA HM.Clause

Information: fkorn@seedcentral.org

2025

In-person

Nuseed is a global agriculture innovator enabling the transformation of select crops into renewable and traceable sources of lower-carbon energy, and plant-based nutrition. Nuseed’s proprietary solutions contribute to solving global challenges like food security, human nutrition, and climate change. By unlocking the intrinsic value and commercial potential of Omega-3 canola, carinata, sorghum, sunflower, and energy cane to deliver VALUE BEYOND YIELD®, Nuseed empowers growers and end-use customers to rapidly scale today to meet current and emerging demand for generations to come.

Established in 2006, Nuseed has 10 locations in Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, including three proprietary innovation centers, more than 400 employees, and sales in more than 30 countries. Nuseed is the seed technologies platform of Nufarm Limited (ASX:NUF).

Picture taken during our previous field trip to Nuseed in April 2023

In January 2020, Nuseed completed construction in West Sacramento, Calkifornia, of its 48,000 square foot state-of-the-art Innovation Center facility to support analytical and molecular breeding R&D activities, as well as global management. Many of Nuseed’s global commercial operations, marketing, supply chain and finance teams are based at the facility.

Nuseed R&D takes place across the globe, however, operations based out of the new West Sacramento Nuseed Innovation Center play a significant role supporting Nuseed’s key global markets, including:

• Sorghum seed sold by Nuseed in Europe, Africa, and Asia
• A large proportion of Nuseed’s sunflower seed sold in Europe
• All sunflower seed sold in both the US and Canada
• Expansion of Nuseed Omega-3 Canola grain production with operations managed by Nuseed’s North American supply chain leadership

Nuseed’s Global R&D Lead, Leon Streit says, “The addition of this industry leading R&D, supply chain and global management location in the US, in combination with our Horsham Innovation Center in Australia and our rich bank of global germplasm, gives Nuseed a competitive global advantage across both hemispheres.”

Information: fkorn@seedcentral.org.

• BASF | Nunhems
  BASF's Vegetable Seeds Business, featuring the Nunhems brand, offers more than vegetable seeds. We offer partnerships and customer-oriented solutions for the entire vegetable value chain including growers, processors, plant raisers, dealers, traders, retailers and food service industry – tailored to consumer needs and trends.
   
• TBA

Information: fkorn@seedcentral.org

Bayer Vegetable Seeds

As an innovative vegetable seed company who’s also a world leader in human health and nutrition and horticulture, we are driven to deliver health for all and hunger for none.

But we can’t do it alone. Working together, we can ensure that every seed grows beautifully, harvests efficiently, sells quickly, transports easily, and provides the flavor people want – and the nutrition they need. Together, let’s work to grow your business – so that we can grow a healthier world.
With more than 20 different crops and thousands of innovative vegetable seed selections, we’re proud to support a diverse range of growers around the world. Together, we’re growing your business and supporting a healthier world.

A global leader, the company researches and develops over 20 different crops with over 2,200 varieties of seeds. These innovative seeds are marketed to commercial vegetable growers, dealers, distributors, home garden seed providers and wholesalers in more than 150 countries and territories.

Information: fkorn@seedcentral.org.

• BASF | Nunhems
  BASF's Vegetable Seeds Business, featuring the Nunhems brand, offers more than vegetable seeds. We offer partnerships and customer-oriented solutions for the entire vegetable value chain including growers, processors, plant raisers, dealers, traders, retailers and food service industry – tailored to consumer needs and trends.
   
• 2nd company TBA
   

Information: fkorn@seedcentral.org.

At Bayer's invitation, the students of Professor Jeffrey Wong's Seed Production class will attend an online workshop with Bayer's seed production & supply chain specialists.

Our host

Arianne Tremblay Molecular Biology Lead GreenVenus

Innovation for Healthier People and Planet

With next-generation plant propagation and speed breeding technologies, GreenVenus, LLC is improving the quality of food for consumers while reducing food waste and preserving valuable resources.

Our Focus
Specialty crops are at the core of who we are. These crops present immense opportunities for advancement in genetics. In addition, the power of our technology platforms allows us to bring innovation to any specialty crop category and we are excited about the developing pipelines of both lettuce and yellow peas.

Information: fkorn@seedcentral.org.

Information: fkorn@seedcentral.org