Seed & Arable Production

In order to ensure an adequate supply of high quality seed, PGG Wrightson Seeds has a team of dedicated production field agronomists, including agronomists with intimate knowledge of specialist multiplication vegetable seed crops.

This team offers extensive agronomic skills required to supervise the production of varieties, which are contracted for local and international markets.

PGG Wrightson Seeds contract with growers to produce a wide range of small seed forage cultivars to meet the needs of domestic businesses in New Zealand, Australia and also the International market.

Species contracted include ryegrass, tall fescue, cocksfoot, white and red clover, lucerne, forage herbs, turf grasses, forage cereals and forage brassicas.

In the Canterbury region there is a dedicated Arable Representative team that provides a complete package of services to growers including offering of contracts, cereal and commodity seed purchasing, agronomic advice, agrichemical sales and market information.

PGG Wrightson Seeds has an extensive logistics and distribution network with centres throughout New Zealand, Australia and Uruguay. The Operations function includes seed processing, treatment, storage, mixing and distribution.

PGG Wrightson Seeds operations sites have been strategically located in order to gain the maximum efficiencies from the transport hubs that emanate from these locations.

Communication and planning are the fundamental functions of our Operations team, ensuring we have the right products in the right place, at specification, at the right time, to meet or exceed our customers’ expectations.