Garst Seed Company

Seed Research Program

An Innovative Past - An Exciting Future of Choices

Garst has always been an organization focused on developing seed products that produce consistently high yields combined with agronomic stability and the protective traits growers desire. To illustrate that, some of our past accomplishments include:

The first commercially available IMI-Corn hybrid in 1991.
GLS resistant hybrids to defeat the number one foliar disease.
Effective Bt hybrids that provide full-season control of Corn Borers.
G-STAC multiple trait hybrids that deliver performance without yield drag.

The commitment to research and breeding innovation continues today and will into the future. Garst has an industry leading technology and research program that will ensure growers have choices. The Garst research program features include:

Over $2 million spent per day on research
Over $750,000 spent each day on seed breeding and biotechnology
A corn research program that includes 1.5 million corn test plots
A soybean research program that includes 800,000 soybean plots
An aggressive use of molecular markers to enhance breeding efforts with the newest technology including:
- Marker assisted inbred conversions (MAIC)
- Marker assisted selections
- Trait dissection and genomics that help Garst researchers understand the functionality of specific genes and improved agronomic performance

Garst seed products offer growers a competitive edge and convenience because no other seed company offers more technology Choices than Garst - no one!

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