Our Seed Cycle
Most of the agricultural seed we sell is grown within a 50-mile radius of Walnes HQ.
We grow all types of combinable crops:
- Winter and spring cereals including wheat, barley, triticale and oats.
- Oil seed rape and linseed
- Winter and spring sown beans and peas
- Vetches
- Italian and perennial rye grasses
Each season we select specific varieties from AHDB’s Recommended List, choosing reliable, robust high-yielding varieties that will match our customers’ requirements and meet market demands
We produce conventionally grown and organic seed and all our products are 100% quality assured and fully traceable. Our contract growers are members of the Red Tractor farm assurance scheme and those growing organic seed crops are also certified by an approved organic certification scheme.
Proficient heritage
Our professional seed growers are predominantly family businesses located in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. We have between 25 and 30 contract seed growers, amounting to a collective area in seed production of approximately 2000 hectares. Many have been producing seed for us for more than 30 years and all have an outstanding reputation for exceptional land management and crop husbandry.
“Many of our contract farms have been growing seed for Walnes for generations – one of them has been with us for 40 years. Our long heritage is testament to the collaborative way we work with our farmers. Our professional, quality-oriented approach offers mutual benefits to us as seed suppliers and the individual businesses that grow our crops”
Andrew Cooper, MD.