Trait Economics
Grain market prices versus seed prices have producers looking for options and trusted partners. Today, over 90% of the corn and soybean acres carry at least one GMO trait.
Tremendous investment opportunities cultivated by Legacy Seed Companies
Harnessing the entrepreneurial power and innovation of regional seed companies
Our Vision
Keep Rural America Strong
Help customers capture the greatest value from their farms by harnessing the entrepreneurial power and innovation of agricultural companies
Search out Seed Opportunities
Our goal is to find opportunities that offer more than just high yielding varieties. We view our customer as the grower, processor, food company and consumer.
Regenerative Agriculture
Our companies support product development that will help achieve upmarket sustainability goals with the following practices: We offer growers cover crop options to build soil health; we have wheat varieties with the gene for Fusarium resistance and lower vomitoxin numbers; we are selecting corn and alfalfa products that can lower methane emissions from cows; and, our leafy hybrids achieve top yields at lower plant population, saving input costs.
Mission
Legacy Seed Companies believes the entrepreneurial power and innovation of regional seed companies can offer tremendous investment opportunity.
Please contact us if you are one of the following
Owner
You are an owner seeking liquidity while preserving your company location and legacy
Supplier
You are an innovative product supplier desiring a unique way to access the farm market
Food company
You are a food company looking for seeds with specific characteristics and qualities
Investor
You are an investor who believes in preserving the company culture of successful independent rural businesses
Branding announcement
We are excited to announce our holding company name has been changed to Legacy Seed Companies, LLC (formerly Tillerman Seeds, LLC). Our new name reflects our mission to preserve the approach and brand identity of all Legacy Seed Companies and to maintain the values that made them successful. Our current companies, DF Seeds and Legacy Seeds, and future companies will continue to operate under current names and management will evolve as they grow. We will continue to support their growth through back office and employee investment to increase the value offered to their customers.
Industry Trends
Marketplace change presents an opportunity and a need. We have a unique approach to serve the marketplace and are organizing around the following trends
Price Transparency
Seed pricing of genetics is becoming more transparent which has market movement seeking different suppliers or “trusted partner” options.
Market Concentration
Mega mergers and divestments with Bayer/Monsanto acquisition, Dow Dupont merger of equals, Chem China Syngenta acquisition, and BASF benefitting from divestments has resulted in significant changes in people, products, brand, and strategy that will provide several years of turbulence.
Consumer Preferences
Consumer preferences have fragmented markets and moved significant segments to look for non-GMO, organic, and other unique preferences like gluten free resulting in new practices, supply chains, and producer behaviors. Food companies are changing and looking for solutions and suppliers to deliver their needs. Organic and non-GMO production in the US is expanding.
Digital Platforms
Early stage impacts from Climate’s FieldView, Dow Dupont Encirca/Granular, Deere, and Farmobile are collecting performance data and practices. Seed is increasingly part of a solution and system that creates unique, measured value.
CRISPR
Genetic modification is faster, cheaper, and easier than past state-of-the-art. The technology can provide “unique quality output” impact not yet experienced in the market.
Farm Demographics & Consolidation
Farmers are changing through market pressures resulting in a large number of “Baby Boomers” retiring, creating emerging groups that we can serve “legacy farms” and “technology farms”
Our Specialties
Laser-like focus on developing seeds that allow farmers in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and other Midwestern states to maximize yields
Both Legacy and DF Seeds select corn and soybean products from all trait providers and from more than 15 different breeding programs. DF Seeds selects for yield and disease tolerance for the grower, combined with end-use needs of food companies like protein, milling characteristics, hilum color, and coagulation. Legacy Seeds is one of the few seed companies that test and select silage for digestibility. Legacy's leafy hybrids are silage specific and offer greater starch availability to the cow using soft kernel and floury genetics. DF Seeds offers first-in-class food-grade products with non-GMO and organic soybeans options along with red and white soft winter wheats.
#1
Independent alfalfa breeding program in the U.S.
>15
Different breeding programs
8
Category wins at 2018 MSU Corn, Soy, and Wheat Performance Trials
Latest News
DF Seeds Founder John Diehl Receives 2018 Leaders and Legends Award from Michigan Agri-Business Association
Soybeans expert and D.F. Seeds founder John Diehl received the 2018 Leaders and Legends award from the Michigan Agri-Business Association for a lifetime of achievements that have helped boost the state’s agricultural industry.
Read moreTillerman Seeds acquires Wisconsin’s Legacy Seeds, Inc.
Michigan firm creates $40 million agribusiness company with second acquisition GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
Read moreTillerman Seeds Acquires DF Seeds, Looks to Buy Regional Seed Suppliers
Tillerman Seeds in Grand Rapids purchased Dansville, Mich.-based DF Seeds in its first acquisition of regional producers of specialty, GMO and non-GMO seeds for agriculture.
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