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Distributed six times per year to more than 9,000 seed professionals, each issue of Seed World features a thought-provoking, issues-based look at specific industry concerns as well as regular departments that ensure each reader has a customized experience.
The magazine for the U.S. seed industry that delivers real marketing, lead generation and custom media solutions for today’s innovative businesses supplying products and services to this lucrative $12 billion market.
With information, advice and ideas covering virtually every business aspect of the U.S. seed market, Seed World is read by owners, presidents and CEOs to help them run and grow their businesses. Source
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Search ArticlesUSDA Invests $180 Million in National Plant Germplasm System
The American Seed Trade Association welcomed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Oct. 6 announcement of a $180 million investment in the National Plant Germplasm System, a network that preserves plant genetic resources for breeding and research. The NPGS provides farmers, seed companies and researchers with access to diverse plant materials used to develop new varieties and advance agricultural innovation. ASTA has long advocated for investment in the system’s 22 seed bank facilities.
Seed Innovators Need a Clear Path to Market
For seed innovators, attracting capital takes a credible path to market, realistic timelines, and a clear understanding of the problem their technology solves. A promising discovery can earn scientific validation and still leave an investor with an unanswered question: How does this become a business? For seed companies and technology developers, the answer takes more than a compelling account of what new genetics or gene editing could accomplish.
Wheat Geneticist Jorge Dubcovsky Named 2026 World Agriculture Prize Laureate
Jorge Dubcovsky, a wheat geneticist at the University of California, Davis, has been named the 2026 World Agriculture Prize Laureate in the category for countries with developed economies. The award recognizes his contributions to wheat improvement and global food security. It is presented by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for the Agricultural and Life Sciences, known as GCHERA.
Give Your Team an Hour to Grow
You recognize your employees’ potential and want to help them grow, stay updated, and bring new ideas to the company. But when you look at the training budget, conferences can mean registration fees, travel costs, hotel stays, and days away from work. You don’t always need to send someone on a trip to meet their training needs. Sometimes, the best thing you can offer is just an hour to learn. Webinars make it easy to access a wide range of expertise.
The Corteva-Inari Case Is Settled… But the Bigger Questions Aren’t.
In my three decades in the business of seeds, I’ve seen very few topics complicate a conversation as quickly as intellectual property. Talk to one person and the bigger issue is protection: companies have to be able to protect years, sometimes decades, of investment. Talk to someone else and the conversation quickly turns to access: where will the genetics and biological material needed to build the next innovation come from?
Vylor Is Open for Business: What Changes for Europe’s Seed Sector
Exactly one year after Corteva announced plans to divide its seed and crop protection businesses, Vylor officially came into being on 1 October 2026. For Europe’s seed sector, that creates an unusual kind of new company. The name is new. Much of the underlying business is not. Pioneer® remains the flagship farmer-facing brand, established breeding programs continue, and Vylor starts life carrying over a large global research, production and commercial footprint.
Euroseeds Urges Focus on Variety Performance in Organic Breeding Rules
Euroseeds is calling on EU policymakers to assess varieties for organic farming by their field performance, warning that additional rules governing breeding processes could raise costs and reduce farmers’ access to suitable varieties. In a new position paper on the revision of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on organic production, the organisation raises concerns about Amendment 14, adopted by the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Better Genetics Are Running Into an Infrastructure Problem
For a long time, the easiest way to talk about plant breeding was to talk about the variety. More yield. Better disease resistance. Earlier maturity. Improved quality. Those things still matter. But after spending much of this year talking with breeders, seed growers, farmers and researchers, I’m more and more convinced that focusing only on the variety misses what may be the biggest challenge facing Canadian plant breeding.
Canola Breeding Has Changed. So Has the Meaning of a Better Hybrid
Canola has changed significantly in the 40 years since I first entered the industry. In the late 1980s, there were fewer than nine million acres of canola in production, all of it open-pollinated. Yields were highly variable. Weed control was mechanical or a mix of different selective herbicides. Our only disease focus was blackleg. Hybridization has since revolutionized the industry. From the outset, Bayer has been developing canola for higher yield potential and earlier maturity.
The Most Important Innovation in Pulse Breeding May Be the Network
For years, Canadian pulse breeders have watched genomic selection revolutionize crops such as corn, soybeans and canola while wondering when the technology would become practical for peas, lentils and other smaller-acreage crops. The answer, it turns out, isn’t simply better science, but better collaboration.