Westbred® Brand & AGSECO, Inc. - Partners in Superior Wheat Genetics and Technology

WestBred, a unit of Monsanto Company, is a premier research and development company for cereal grains in North America. WestBred products combine a rich tradition of growing experience with leading edge technologies to create some of the finest cereal grain seed available today. Their primary hard winter wheat research facility is located near Haven, Kansas and is under the direction of Dr. Sid Perry, a world-class wheat breeder.

AGSECO, Inc. is a group of regional seed companies who cooperatively market wheat genetics in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Nebraska. By licensing varieties from WestBred, a unit of Monsanto Company, AGSECO Companies are able to efficiently & cost effectively produce and market the finest varieties available in their local trade regions. From its initial start-up of nine like-minded Kansas seed producers, AGSECO has grown to over 40 Associates in four states. AGSECO is committed to continuing to grow and expand into areas currently not serviced by our Associates.

This partnership between the WestBred group and AGSECO, Inc. provides wheat farmers with the opportunity to profit from unique wheat genetics available exclusively from AGSECO Associates.

Coming in 2009!
Armour Hard Red Winter Wheat
A hard red winter wheat with broad adaptation.

Armour is a hard red winter wheat variety developed by WestBred and licensed to AGSECO in 2008. Armour is broadly adapted to the central Great Plains and features early maturity and excellent yield potential. This variety offers exceptional straw strength, very good leaf rust resistance, and excellent tolerance to low pH soil conditions. Armour is an “Impact” variety and should grow in popularity to dominate acres planted in eastern Colorado, all of Kansas, all of Nebraska and the northern
1/2 of Oklahoma.

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Beyond® Crop Production System

AGSECO and BASF have teamed-up to bring the CLEARFIELD® Production System to wheat farmers in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nebraska. This system combines superior genetics, such as the variety Protection, with excellent weed control through Beyond™ herbicide.

This combination of AGSECO wheat varieties and BASF technology provides wheat farmers another management tool in their efforts to maximize grain yields and profit.

Beyond herbicide will control or suppress a broad spectrum of weeds, many of which have been previously uncontrollable in wheat production. Difficult weeds such as:

• jointed goatgrass
• cheatgrass
• downy brome
• hairy chess
• feral rye
• volunteer cereals
• Italian ryegrass

All CLEARFIELD® wheat varieties are non-GMO. This is a very important consideration as there are no marketing or export restrictions attached to these varieties.

AGSECO is currently evaluating many new CLEARFIELD® wheat lines and expects to have widely adapted varieties in the near future.

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