Our Seeds
and Our Process

There is a very good chance the seed in your last food plot bag started its life in the same place ours did. Not the same kind of place. The same place.

~90%

of the cool season forage seed planted in the United States comes out of Oregon's Willamette Valley

~85%

of the country's crimson clover seed is grown in Oregon. Red clover is around 75%

~1,500

seed farms and nearly 400 conditioning plants sit in that one valley

Sources: Progressive Forage, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Oregon State University Extension

That valley is a strip of farm ground about 150 miles long south of Portland. Wet winters, dry summers, deep soil. It is close to a perfect place to grow seed, which is why almost everybody's clover comes from there. Ours included.

Most food plot companies are not growing seed

They are buying from the same wholesalers everyone else buys from, putting it in a bag with a buck on the front, and selling it to you. This is not a secret. One of the better known food plot brands states plainly on their own website that they contract with major seed wholesalers. A seed company put it bluntly: few seed retailers grow their own seed crops, they repack seed grown by others.

A few companies do run real breeding programs and hold patents on specific varieties. That work is legitimate, and we sell a couple of those varieties ourselves because they are genuinely better. But that is the exception, and it is usually one hero variety riding in a bag alongside the same commodity seed everybody else has. The rest came off the same trucks ours did.

If the seed is largely the same, then the only things left worth competing on are what goes in the bag and how much of each.

A bag on a shelf was built for an average plot

A national mix has to work well enough in Georgia and Michigan and Pennsylvania, in sand and in clay. Nobody built it around your soil pH, your drainage, or how hard your deer hit it the first week of November. Built to be acceptable everywhere is another way of saying optimized for nowhere.

Meanwhile you already know things about your land that no seed company ever will. Which plot stays wet into May. Which one burns up in August. A pre made bag gives you no way to use any of it.

Ratios are where blends are won or lost

Two blends can hold the exact same six varieties and perform nothing alike, because the pounds are different. A bag heavy on cheap cereal grain and light on brassica hits a price point and a weight. It does not necessarily hit your goals.

That is the entire reason this builder exists. Pick the varieties that suit your ground and your season, then set the weight of every one yourself. Three pounds more clover and two less rye? Do it. Want to drop a variety that never got touched last year? Drop it. Save the blend and plant it again next season, or adjust it based on what you watched happen in the field.

What we will tell you that a bag will not

Open any variety in the builder and you will see its tested germination rate. That number decides whether the seed you pay for actually comes up. It is the difference between a full bag and half a bag, and most bags will not print one. We publish ours on every variety we sell, along with the soil pH range each species wants, taken from university extension research rather than from a marketing department.

We are not going to tell you we found magic seed nobody else can get. That company does not exist. We will tell you where it comes from, how well it germinates, what it needs, and hand you the controls.

Build it around your land

Pick your varieties. Set your own weights. Save it and plant it again next year.

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