Bayer Cropscience Acquires U.S. Seeds Company

摘要

Bayer CropScience has agreed to buy Hornbeck Seed Company Inc. (DeWitt, AK), a privately-held seeds company supplying soybean, rice, and wheat varieties in the southern U.S. market, with an inhouse soy- bean breeding program and proprietary soybean germplasm. Bayer CropScience will acquire the seed businesses and gain access to soybean germplasm for future variety and trait development. Financial details were not disclosed. Hornbeck, founded in the early 1980s, has grown into a major seed supplier in the mid-south. It provides seeds to customers in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. For Bayer CropScience the acquisition is another step in addressing the needs of southern growers, and in particular soybean growers, the company says.