“Fontanelle Hybrids is now the distributor for the Interstate brand of sunflower varieties in Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado,” Steve Pike, Fontanelle Hybrids sales manager, Fontanelle, Nebraska said. “Interstate is known for top quality and top performing sunflowers, and Fontanelle is known for our seed partnerships with customers so this match up made sense, in particular because we already have a strong sunflower variety on the market with 902 NS. We will be the exclusive distributor of the Interstate brand in 2007”

Fontanelle representatives and the Fontanelle website have the technical specifications for the added sunflower varieties including:

• NuSun™ hybrids—HySun 454, HySun 450 and HySun 521;

• Traditional oil hybrid—IS 4049;

• Confection hybrid—IS 8048;

• And High Oleic hybrid—High Oleic 120.

“Interstate Seed in Fargo, North Dakota has supplied premium sunflower genetics to producers for 40 years,” Bill Weber, Interstate sales lead said. “We offer products that fit the varied needs of growers and processors in today’s diversified market place including Hi Oleic, NuSun, Confection, Clearfield® herbicide tolerance and varieties with excellent de-hull characteristics.”

Fontanelle Hybrids markets corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, alfalfa and sunflowers in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri and portions of Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Texas as a CORE Group company under the High Cycle® Seed Systems brand of products.

High Cycle is a registered trademark of the CORE Group.