Agricultural Seed Specialists

The Elsoms Agricultural Division provide UK farmers with an impressive and comprehensive range of arable crops from its own partners plant breeding programmes.

Agricultural Seed

Seed Innovation

Energy Crops

Cover Crops

The Elsoms Agricultural Division provides UK farmers with an impressive portfolio of varieties encompassing the arable, forage, energy and catch and cover crop sectors.

The formation of joint ventures such as Elsoms Wheat Ltd and Elsoms Ackermann Barley Ltd, and our close association with Saaten Union and Crites Seeds Inc, has already successfully introduced a range of market leading varieties. Elsoms and partners continue to invest heavily in new breeding techniques to ensure that competitive, commercial varieties are available to UK growers. By working closely with likeminded, independent plant breeding businesses, Elsoms use a range of impressive resources and research stations to remain a significant force in developing new agricultural varieties for the UK market.

At Elsoms, we will continue delivering the highest quality seed to the next generation of UK farmers across the vegetable and arable sector.

Roger Keeling, Chairman

Extensive trials show Spring Oats needn’t be styled a Cinderella crop

Variety Lion yielded well and had the lowest hulling losses in 2022 Spring Oat trial confirms agronomist Brin Hughes Following four years of intensive trials aimed at improving the yield and quality of Spring Oats, agronomist Brin Hughes, of Richardson Milling (UK) Limited, confirms that they should no longer be unkindly referred to as a […]

Raising a glass to Mojito – Elsoms’ newest maize variety

High yielding maize variety, Mojito is the newest addition to Elsoms’ expanding arable portfolio. Joining a range of other trialled and tested varieties including Frodo, Sufaster and Neutrino, Mojito offers farmers the ability to form a complete portfolio of maize varieties from FAO 180-230. To celebrate the launch, we’ve had a chat with our Energy, […]