Washington Court House, Ohio, USA
July 27, 2015
Based in Washington Court House, Ohio, Seed Consultants, Inc. (SCI) was started in 1990 by Chris Jeffries and Dan Fox.
Today, Seed Consultants has grown to be the largest Ohio based seed company.
Over the past 25 years, SCI has seen much growth and many positive changes. In 2000, the company built a state-of-the-art conditioning facility at its Washington Court House location with a cleaning capacity of one million units of soybeans and wheat. In 2001, SCI purchased the retail seed sales of Warner Seeds of Bradford, Ohio and entered into a long-term agreement with Warner Seeds for irrigated production of hybrid seed corn. The corn production arm, Warner Seeds and Dull Homestead, recently spent invested more than $3.5 million in new construction and renovation of their seed corn plants. In 2009, SCI purchased an additional warehouse in Sabina, Ohio, gaining an additional 130,000 square feet of storage space.
SCI has remained focused on customer service, good business practices and values while continuing to grow the business. Seed Consultants was built on a foundation of honesty and ethical treatment of customers, and continues to live up to that legacy.
SCI has committed tremendous resources to determining where hybrids and varieties are best adapted and supplying customers with elite genetics that will perform on their soils. Seed Consultants corn, soybeans, wheat and alfalfa varieties are selected specifically for the eastern Corn Belt's unique soil types and growing conditions. Since 2008, SCI is the only eastern Corn Belt based seed company with four national and thirty-one state winners in the NCGA Yield Contest. On average, SCI annually plants more than 45,000 yield plots at seventy-five research locations throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia.
According to Daniel Call, general manager, “Seed Consultants has experienced tremendous growth over our first 25 years. We are grateful to our customers and employees who have allowed us to experience this growth and success. We are excited to continue this growth and service to our customers over the next 25 years.”
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