U.S. Seed Companies

Plant Breeding

There are many employment opportunities in plant breeding. Many of our plant breeding faculty work with seed company plant breeders to solve production problems and provide new plant breeders for their programs.

The following seed companies have plant breeders developing products for markets in the U.S.

For information on the industry itself, see ASTA or Seedquest.

• American Meadows
• American Seed Exchange
• American Takii
• Applewood Seed Co.
• Bailey Seed Co.
• Ball Horticultural Co.
• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Bakker Brothers
• Barenburg Seed
• Beck’s Hybrid
• Bejo Seeds
• BHN Seed
• Bonanza Seed International
• Brett-Young Seeds
• Burpee Seed
• Burrell Seeds
• California Asparagus Seed and Transplants
• Carolina Gourds
• Champion Seeds
• Corona Seeds, Inc
• Daehnfeldt Seed
• Denali Seed Co.
• Ed Hume Seeds
• Emerald Seed Co.
• Express Seed Co.
• Ferry-Morse Seed Co.
• Germania Seed Co.
• Harris Moran
• Hazera Quality Seed
• Heirloom Seeds
• Hollar & Co.
• Jelitto Perennial Seeds
• Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• J. W. Jung Seed Co.
• Monsanto
• Mycogen Seed
• New England Seed Co.
• Nichols Garden Nursery
• Orsetti Seeds
• PanAmerican Seed
• Park Seed Co.
• Penn State Seed Co.
• Pinetree Garden Seeds
• Pioneer Hi-Bred
• Plant Sciences Inc.
• P & P Seed Co.
• Redwood City Seed
• Sakata Seeds
• Seedway
• Seeds of Change
• Seminis Vegetable Seeds
• Shamrock Seed Co.
• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
• Stokes Seeds
• Syngenta
• Territorial Seed Co.
• United Genetics Seeds
• Veseys Seed
• Victory Seed Co.
• Virtual Seeds
• Vis Seeds
• Weeks Seed Co.
• Willhite Seed