Great seed that always grows strong
Our partnerships with Crookham Company, Snowy River, and Crites bring you an extensive portfolio that sets industry benchmarks in the European market. Crookham Company’s large sweetcorn bank has led to many recent innovations in sweetcorn. Crites Seeds Inc. are a vegetable seed breeder with 90 years of proven experience in the US market and are bringing several exciting vining pea lines to our portfolio.
Bred for Europe. Available to Europe.
Partnering with Elsoms brings bigger and better service delivery and distribution capability into fresh markets across Europe. It also puts a reliable supply of Crites, Crookham, and Snowy River seed varieties specifically bred for European conditions on tap for processors and growers.
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Our portfolio
Explore our exceptional portfolio and witness the difference that expertise, innovation, and dedication can make.
At Elsoms, our deep-rooted heritage makes us a leading independent seed specialist, plant breeder, and seed technology innovator. From around 1,000 plots in 1960, today our own trials and breeding capability extends to around 100,000 plots.
We understand the challenges faced by the agricultural industry and keeping pace with ever-changing modern practice is mutually beneficial. It’s why we focus on continuous improvement to the varieties we bring to market and the relationships we build.
Through our scale and expertise, growers and processors have come to trust us. They know we take their business and the business of farming very seriously. They can rely on the integrity of our advice and our dedicated technical knowledge to help inform commercial growing decisions. Wherever you are and whatever you grow, we are the seed specialists you can trust.
We are a truly pan-European operation
The size and scale of our operation stretches the length and breadth of the continent. Processors and growers in more than 25 countries can rely on us to deliver the highest quality seed, and advise to suit their specific growing conditions.
Get in touch with us today for more information on our International portfolio
France – Brittany and South-West
Jean-Charles Orhan
Phone: +33 6 15 25 29 29
France – North France and Benelux
Paul Ringard
Phone: +33 6 81 78 74 23
Italy
Arpino Simoni Romani
Phone: +39 335 283 491
Spain and Portugal
Santiago Elena Sánchez
Phone: +34 667 000 147
Hungary and Slovakia
Zoltán Markocsány
Phone: +36 30 685 5692
Other Markets and Principal Contact All Territories
Lars Andersen
Phone: +45 2168 2521