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Target Seed, LLC

PO Box 300
Parma, ID 83660
866-400-6434
Website: http://www.targetseed.com/
E-mail us •  tomm@targetseed.com

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Tom Miles

Company Profile

Target Seed LLC is the newest addition to the J. C. Watson family of companies. Located in southwestern Idaho's Treasure Valley since 1912, the J.C. Watson Company is a grower, shipper and packer of fresh fruits and vegetables, well known for handling the same growers from generation to generation. In addition to marketing nationally and internationally recognized labels of potatoes, onions and apples, this third generation company also owns and operates a regional fertilizer and chemical company.

Within the Treasure Valley grower community, and as growers themselves, the principals of Target Seed LLC represent over 25 years experience in commercial alfalfa seed production. Target Seed LLC emerges now at the perfect time, with a rich background in ag-related marketing, with firm support of the area's best producers, and with state of the art alfalfa genetics.

Target Seeds LLC has always offered only top of the line products with proven genetics that were obtained from one of the most respected alfalfa breeding programs in the nation. To insure the continued future supply of elite product lines, Target Seeds, LLC has decided to expand its emphasis in the alfalfa seed industry by hiring its own Alfalfa Breeder, Dr. Donald Miller.

Dr. Miller formally worked as the senior alfalfa breeder for ABI Alfalfa and has 31 years of experience in alfalfa breeding. During Dr. Miller’s career in the public and private industry, he has been involved in the development /co-development of approximately 150 forage varieties. Dr. Miller’s addition to Target Seeds, LLC will provide continuity between Target Seeds past and future varieties, insuring high yielding and high quality products for the grower.

A new sales division, Target Seeds Sales, LLC has also been established to coordinate the sales of the Proprietary Alfalfa, VNS Alfalfa and Forage Seeds. Pat Orthel and sales managers Tom Miles and Dion Ackerman will be responsible for its operation. Tom Miles brings 27 years of experience to the new sales division having formally worked for ABI Alfalfa, Inc in its seed production and sales divisions.

Dion Ackerman, a graduate of the University of Illinois has 17 years of experience in the Ag Industry, having formally worked for Sandoz, BASF, and most recently for ABI Alfalfa, Inc as its mid-west alfalfa seed sales manager. Pat Orthel will be located at the seed distribution facility near Homedale, Idaho and Dion Ackerman in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Tom Miles and Dr. Don Miller will be stationed at the new Target Seeds research facility near Nampa, Idaho.

The goal of Target Seeds LLC is to develop, produce, and deliver high quality seed at a reasonable price. Combining our parent company's marketing expertise with substantial grower support and an ability to stay on the leading edge of emerging alfalfa seed technology. Target Seeds LLC is here to serve distributors, dealers, and individual producers.