Fontanelle, Nebraska
August 18, 2003
As a growing company in a
business with complex inventory and processing needs,
Fontanelle Hybrids,
Fontanelle, Nebraska needed more space and additional equipment.
It found it next door to the existing Fontanelle Fremont
Production Plant.
“We’ve been needing additional warehouse space,” Dave Monke,
production manager said. “Plus we’d been looking at adding new
soybean processing equipment, including a new tower. And, with
the new seed applied technology that is coming into the market
right now, we have been looking at adding a new treater, but
didn’t have the room for it in our existing facility. By
acquiring the property next to us that had been used as a seed
facility, we were able to accomplish our goal of expansion and
to have a good starting base for our specific seed handling
needs.”
As one of the top 35 seed companies in the United States,
Fontanelle continues its commitment to provide a full line up of
seed products to its customers. This means that new products,
new product types and new seed treatments are entering the
current offerings to customers at an extremely fast pace. “This
year alone we are introducing 28 new products in our corn,
soybeans and sorghum product lines,” Steve Pike, sales manager
said.
“Introducing new products at this pace involves production issues from
growing the seed all the way through processing it up to our
quality standards and then maintaining that quality with proper
warehousing. By purchasing the nearby Fremont production plant
from our neighbors, JC Robinson Seeds, Waterloo, NE, we are
ensuring that we can continue to provide our customers with the
quality Fontanelle products they’ve come to trust.”
Fontanelle Hybrids is a 68 year old employee-owned seed company
marketing corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, alfalfa and sunflowers
in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri and portions of
Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Texas. Fontanelle Hybrids
is one of the five owners and members of the Core Group that
markets value added products under the High Cycle® Seed Systems
brand of products. |
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