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Beck’s acquires Nebraska site to enhance plant breeding and research

Beck’s has acquired a research facility in Nebraska to further enhance its plant breeding program.

President Scott Beck tells Brownfield…

“Our company’s been expanding to the west for a number of years now and we recently built a distribution site there at Goehner. So this will give us additional facilities and additional storage and additional farm ground to do our research on.”

He says a portion of the 400-acre site will include a plant breeding nursery along with testing of different corn hybrids and soybean varieties.

“That’s where we’re developing new inbred lines that can help achieve higher and higher output and yields for farmers in Nebraska and in western states. And so we’ll have three breeding programs located there for breeding products for the western marketing area.”

The site is the former BASF Research Station, near Beck’s current 100-acre facility, about 30 miles west of Lincoln, Nebraska.