Albert Lea Seed House

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Have you bought seed from them before? How did things go? Good quality? Seed did what you expected?

 

[Des Moines Clone]

My dad makes a trek up there any time he needs to seed a hay field. He's been happy with their products.

 

[BirdOfWar]

My dad makes a trek up there any time he needs to seed a hay field. He's been happy with their products.

I think they have a location in Ames as well

 

[BCClone]

Have you bought seed from them before? How did things go? Good quality? Seed did what you expected?

It changed ownership a few years ago. I haven’t been there since. Just haven’t needed anything. They have a solid variety. I probably wouldn’t buy corn seed from them though.

 

[StClone]

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[StClone]

It changed ownership a few years ago. I haven’t been there since. Just haven’t needed anything. They have a solid variety. I probably wouldn’t buy corn seed from them though.

AL Seed is not strong in field corn. They been around a long time an seem to specialize otherwise.

 

[BCClone]

AL Seed is not strong in field corn. They been around a long time a seem to specialize otherwise.

They have their Viking stuff that I knew a few guys would plant it 15-20 years ago. Mostly conventional stuff.

 

[intrepid27]

As far as corn goes, they focus 0n organic and conventional hybrids. They do a great job with their small seeds. Very big into cover crops, natives, and forages.

 

[gocy444]

I have not. I also do not farm. Hope this helps.

 

[nhclone]

I've ordered switchgrass through them a couple times and they were fast and reasonably priced, no experience with Ag products though.

 

[Beernuts]

Have purchased several CRP mixes through them over the years. Good company with a cool warehouse in Albert Lea.

When you pick up your seed go to lunch at the Thirsty Fox bar/restaurant.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Some of their corn is huge this year. 80,000 kernels come in 2 bags. So a person counted 2 bags, not one. So my corn is short. Nice.

 

[BirdOfWar]

Some of their corn is huge this year. 80,000 kernels come in 2 bags. So a person counted 2 bags, not one. So my corn is short. Nice.

That seems really strange for it to be quite so big it needs two bag. Maybe they used the wrong size of bag when bagging it?

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Doesn’t happen a lot. If an ear doesn’t fill nicely you can get big kernels. DK 493 did that a lot back in the 1990’s.