AgriLife Foundation Seed, located near Vernon, Texas, is a non-profit, stand-alone unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research that services most of the plant material improvement efforts of Texas A&M AgriLife statewide. Operations are intended to be self-supporting by generating revenue through sales and services much as a commercial business would.
Foundation Seed is an essential link between the public plant breeder and the licensee farmer or company. The original mission of Foundation Seed was to produce and market genetically pure seed of new cultivars developed by the scientists of Texas A&M AgriLife. Although the name implies it works only with seed, it is also involved with production and distribution of vegetatively propagated plant materials and works as a liaison between the various plant breeding programs at AgriLife and those companies that have an interest in licensing and marketing these plant material improvements. As a part of our duties, we handle business aspects of research commercialization in an effort to allow scientists to concentrate on their respective research projects.
Foundation Seed handles revenues from seed sales and non-licensed products. All funds generated by the sales are used to support the effort of providing quality seed of new, high yielding, better-adapted crop varieties to the agricultural industry.
Other services provided are production and/or seed conditioning services to public and private breeding programs.
As a representative for Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Foundation Seed is very active in state, regional, and national seed organizations.
Company Details
- Founded
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- Address
- 11914 Highway 70 South, Vernon,tx 76384,united States
- Industry
- Farming
- NAICS
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Crop ProductionOilseed and Grain FarmingVegetable and Melon FarmingFruit and Tree Nut FarmingGreenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture ProductionOther Crop FarmingSoybean FarmingOilseed (except Soybean) FarmingDry Pea and Bean FarmingWheat FarmingCorn FarmingRice FarmingOther Grain FarmingOrange GrovesCitrus (except Orange) GrovesNoncitrus Fruit and Tree Nut FarmingFood Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Floriculture ProductionTobacco FarmingCotton FarmingSugarcane FarmingHay FarmingAll Other Crop FarmingOilseed and Grain Combination FarmingAll Other Grain FarmingPotato FarmingOther Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon FarmingApple OrchardsGrape VineyardsStrawberry FarmingBerry (except Strawberry) FarmingTree Nut FarmingFruit and Tree Nut Combination FarmingOther Noncitrus Fruit FarmingMushroom ProductionOther Food Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Tree ProductionFloriculture ProductionSugar Beet FarmingPeanut FarmingAll Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming
- Website
- https://tfss.tamu.edu/
- Keywords
- Seeds, farming, seed conditioning, peanut shelling, seed licensing and sales, hardy and tropical hibiscus marketing and sales.
- HQ
- Vernon, TX
Texas A&m Agrilife Foundation Seed Questions
Texas A&M Agrilife Foundation Seed's website is https://tfss.tamu.edu/
Texas A&M Agrilife Foundation Seed's LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/company/agrilife-foundation-seed
Texas A&M Agrilife Foundation Seed's industry is
Farming
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Texas A&M Agrilife Foundation Seed's categories are Farming
Texas A&M Agrilife Foundation Seed's founding year is 1950
