On February 6, USSEC’s board of directors voted to add Dow AgroSciences, NeCo Seed Farm, and World Food Processing as the organization’s newest members.
USSEC's members now number 96.
Dow AgroSciences
Dow AgroSciences provides a variety of products and services to meet the needs of its customers. The firm’s research with strategic partners is bringing breakthrough and sustainable solutions to the industry such as: innovative hybrids and seed varieties; crop-enhancing traits; crop protection products; vegetation management solutions; residential pest control; turf and ornamental; and healthy oils. The company began in the 1950s as the agricultural unit of The Dow Chemical Company. In 1989, The Dow Chemical Company entered a joint venture with the Elanco Plant Sciences business of Eli Lilly and Company resulting in the formation of DowElanco. In 1997, The Dow Chemical Company acquired 100 percent ownership of the business and renamed it Dow AgroSciences. Today, the organization employs more than 9,000 people worldwide with global sales were $6.4 billion in 2015.
NeCo Seed Farms Inc.
Neco Seed was established in 1978 with the goal of providing a high quality product with good service to form a long-term relationship. The company assists in the production, variety selection, identity preservation, storage, conditioning, and packaging of agricultural products through a network of growers raising specific agricultural products on their farms. NeCo provides this service at various production sites throughout the United States, which each has its own unique characteristics such as various storage capacities/types, freight options, soil types, weather conditions, maturity zones, and conditioning facilities. This enables NeCo to place the customer’s product at the most advantageous site and provides flexibility in satisfying its customers’ needs. NeCo Seeds provides added value and service to its customers through variety testing and selection, contract production, state of the art processing, and by providing a top quality product.
World Food Processing
World Food Processing is a U.S.-based seed to solution supplier of non-GMO seeds, grains ingredients, and food formulations. Having set out to provide protein independence, World Food has successfully designed a seed to solution business model leveraging and optimizing non-GMO seed development and food manufacturing processes. World Food’s products represent whole grains, ingredients, and proteins from soy, pea, pulses, lentils and corn. World Food’s products are always non-GMO and offered in organic. World Food is known for its PURISPea Protein brand of pea protein isolates and is the only manufacturer of pea protein isolates in the United States. Other notable ingredients are Fine Soy Powder Pearl 1000™ and PURISSoy IP non-GMO soy protein isolates and PURISSoy Hexane Free Soy Proteins. World Food Processing uses patented non-GMO and organic plant genetics to provide a vertically integrated closed loop system of services, including seed genetics, seed procurement, grain conditioning, ingredient processing, and food product development. World Food’s system aims to define sustainability, bringing food security and scale in a growing non-GMO and organic food system.