42 Year history of D.F. Seeds, Inc.

1969 -

Diehl Fields builds a seed plant

John is playing in a Navy P-3 Patrol plane

1975 -

John attends Dr. Moore’s T2 school on living tissue analysts

1976 -

Diehl Fields cold tests and T2 tests all soybean lots

1977 -

Diehl Fields installs homemade bean ladder and a gravity table to improve seed physiology

1978 -

Diehl Fields goes to all rotary combines for seed quality

Diehl Fields starts cooperative research with Bio Plant

1979 -

Diehl Fields releases first bean in Michigan with Brown Stem Rot resistance

1980 -

Diehl Fields builds the first soybean plant in with 100% bean ladders Acuscreen, Double Gravity and spiral separators

1983 -

John learned from the best by having test sites with Dairyland, Asgrow and Callahan Seeds

1984 -

Diehl Fields starts their D.F. line of soybeans

DF 101 won MSU Trials, the first group 1 to do so

1985 -

John learns a lot and lights genetics fire by joining Asgrow, Callahan and Dairyland with advance research sites

1991

Diehl Fields starts production and conditioning for Asgrow

1992 -

Diehl Fields name officially changed to D.F. Seeds, Inc.

1994 -

D.F. produced the first GMO soybean seed in Michigan for Asgrow

1996 -

The year of infamy – John lost this wife and the farm

1997 -

With help from his three best friends from Perdue, D.F. Seeds becomes a standalone seed company

1998 -

D.F. doubles the capacity of its seed plant

1999 -

In conjunction with Asgrow, D.F. exports the first GMO soybean seed to Cargill Canada

D.F. starts custom producing and packaging for Asgrown, Channel Bio, Dairyland, CPS, UAP, ZFS and Chemgro

2001 -

With Iowa State and ZFS, D.F. does the first blow up of soybeans with no trans fat oil

D.F. gets its Certified Organic

2004 -

D.F. becomes first small company with a Vistive™ Modified Oil license

2010 -

D.F. installs state-of-the-art computer controlled treater. Unit is isolated to maintain organic certification