b"PARTNER CONTENTRaising the Bar for Seed ProductionBy: Nathan Fegley, President/CEO at Genesis Seed SolutionsW henever someone asks me what Genesis Seed Solutions stands for, I always say the same thing: quality, quality, quality. My biggest goal each year is to produce high quality, con-sistent products that seed companies can rely on. I grew up on a family farm. When my dad and my uncle first started Fegley Grain Cleaning in 1996, cross contamina-tion between barley and wheat was an immediate concern.They put together a cleaning line to handle this type of contamination. The business continued to expand to meet additional issues in seed production.After returning to the farm, I joined the partnership and became the sole owner in 2014. As the seed business grew, we arranged a partnership with United Agronomy, which led to the formation of Genesis Seed Solutions in 2018. From the very beginning, we made the decision that we were going to raise and sell CSO (Certi-fied Seed Only) varieties and have stuck with that decision.We now have two full-scale production facilities in Berthold that we manage to the highest standards and quality control protocols. Our two lines utilize the latest AI technology in our optical sorters as well as high-capacity cleaners to comple- bring in bin run seed for cleaning and thenissue. All these machines after the sieve ment the process. This gives us the overallplant it. We have almost eradicated binmill ensure you dont call me upset with capacity and flexibility to find the bestrun wheat in our area with this productionthe seed you buy from us even though it solution for each customer and to produceprocess and set a new standard for whatis cleaner than the bin run you had been high quality seeds that maintain varietalpeople expect from their product. seeding.This farmer/customer is now purity. I was explaining the value of our pro- one of our best advocates for our business. We have a producer network of up to aduction process to a farmer/customer. HeI am glad he gave me the opportunity to hundred growers and thousands of acreswas trying to understand the need for allexplain our value system. of certified seed under production in Westthe equipment we use after the screen- For me, it's simple: If the seed looks like Central North Dakota and, with the helping machine. My answer to him was youcrap, it doesnt matter if it makes the spec of Vision Research Park, we ensure thehave no problem with a few impuritiesIt could be a 100% germ and a uniform proper seed is grown on the right acre by ain your bin run wheat seed. In fact, if it isseed count over the whole lot, but if it has quality grower. This process cuts down ontoo clean and uniform, you may assumesome white tombstone kernels in it or er-production risk. I overcleaned it and you arent gettinggot then nobody cares about the rest of it. One of the things we wanted to doenough back. However, when you buy ourAt the end of the day, it's all about when we started Genesis was raise the barCSO seed and there is one ergot or a fewquality and consistency for us and adding for seed production. Farmers no longerwhite caps, you assume there is a qualityvalue to the customer.SEPTEMBER 2024SEEDWORLD.COM /33"