Vegetable Seed
As the UK’s leading supplier of quality vegetable seed, we have an impressive and competitive portfolio that is trialled and tested in the UK.
Agricultural Seed
Our large portfolio of arable crops offers an extensive choice to UK farmers of competitive varieties of cereals, oilseeds and pulses.
Seed Technology
With over 30 years’ experience treating seed, we are committed to delivering you the highest quality seed possible with our world-class technology and services.
Research and Development
Our expert team create market leading varieties and seed technologies using specialised facilities and equipment.
Elsoms Trees
Our nursery organise the growing and supply of one to three year old plants to the highest environmental standards, and agreed specification. Unlike conventional plant suppliers, we identify, support and encourage the use of local nursery facilities to ensure local accountability and plant health.
Latest News
Ten Reasons to Grow Primed Tennyson
Introducing the only primed Winter OSR variety in the UK – brought to you by Elsoms’ breeding programme. Recommended for the East/West region by the AHDB, this robust, low risk, high yielding variety is primed to make a big impact to your 2022 programme. With quantitative Phoma resistance, TuYV and a high Verticillium tolerance, Tennyson […]
High yielding Firefoxx offers genetic diversity for malting barley growers and the distilling industry
Frontier’s David Waite, Seed Business development manager for Scotland, advises growers in the North to consider widening their varietal choice of spring malting barley this year to include Firefoxx, an early maturing spring malting barley from breeder Elsoms-Ackermann Barley. Mr Waite, who has followed the variety’s progress within National List trials since spring 2020, believes […]
Elsoms widen their maize portfolio with Makayla
New early maturing variety offers high yields and more efficient harvesting says Sam Poulton of CROPCO. A new high yielding and early maturing maize variety that has successfully come through two years of UK trials will be commercially available to maize growers for the first time, through a partnership between leading independent seed breeder Elsoms […]
Events
Open Days 2022
ELSOMS’ Open Day We are delighted to invite you to our 2022 Open Days at our trial field in Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 3JG. As the UK’s leading independent seed company, our Open Days are the UK’s largest independent vegetable variety trials. They provide a great opportunity to see our extensive vegetable portfolio and new variety introductions […]
British Carrot Growers Demo Day 2022
The British Carrot Growers Association Demonstration Day is back for 2022. The 2022 event will be held at a field location near Kinrossie, Scotland and will kindly be hosted by Tompsett Growers and sponsored by AHDB. The event will take place on Thursday 6th October 2022 from 9am to 3pm. Building on the success of […]