Seed Production Associate

Job Description

Posting Start Date: 7/15/26

Offer ID: 2449

Unit: Limagrain Field Seeds Americas

Job Title: Seed Production Associate

Job Location: Windsor, Colorado

Contract type: Permanent

Job Description:

Seed Production Associate

Main Goal

Assist production manager with Breeder seed production, conditioning, processing, and packaging to ensure seed purity is maintained. Coordinate with growers, federal or state agencies, contractors, and LCS staff to get required inspections, seed testing, and phenotypic data required for Breeder seed. Implement LCS Quality Assurance protocols. Operate, maintain, repair small seed production equipment for use in field or seed processing. Apply agricultural chemicals including pesticides as necessary for optimum production of Breeder seed. Manage seed inventories and warehouse space. Work closely with other LCS staff in day to day operations as well as train and supervise temporary employees. Serve on LCS safety committee and other committees as available and skills/knowledge permit.

This position is based in Windsor, CO and reports to the Seed production coordinator.

Job description

• Assist winter cereals Breeder seed production, including securing production fields, seed preparation, planting, fertilization, weed control, roguing, and harvest. Ensure all production activities are carried out in a manner that maintains seed purity.
• Assist spring cereals Breeder seed production, including securing production fields, seed preparation, planting, fertilization, weed control, rogueing, and harvest. Ensure all production activities are carried out in a manner that maintains seed purity.
• Liaise with appropriate State Department of Agriculture representatives to ensure compliance with and accessibility to phytosanition certification.
• Lead cleaning, conditioning, sampling, treatment, packaging, and shipping of trial seed as directed by Seed Production Coordinator.
• Submit Breeder seed samples to appropriate seed lab for testing of purity, germination, seed count and other tests as appropriate.
• Manage and implement Quality Assurance protocols to ensure purity of Breeder and Foundation seed stocks
• Hire and manage temporary workers as required for Breeder seed production.
• Manage Fort Collins seed inventories (breeder, test, remnant).
• Collect phenotypic descriptors for Plant Variety Protection and Review Board applications.
• Manage maintenance, service, and repair of equipment. Including but not limited to small tractors, threshers, plot combines, planters and seed processing equipment.
• Maintain and organize warehouse space, insure equipment and seed is stored properly so that egress access is maintained.
• Serve on the LCS safety committee or other LCS committees as needed.
• Provide light facility maintenance of LCS headquarters.

What we expect of you

• Technical Skills - Practical knowledge and experience in all aspects of crop production and/or seed productionThe ability to acquire and maintain a commercials driver's license (Class A) and forklift operators certificate. Obtains Commercial Drivers License for the state of Colorado and holds Pesticide Applicators (General, Ag Weed Control, Seed Treatment, Ag Plant Disease, and Ag Insect Control). License issued by the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
• Education & work experience required:
• Minimum of a H.S. diploma and equivalent job experience in agronomy, agriculture, or horticulture is desired.
• Experience in managing field crops is desired, Prior experience with farm equipment operation.
• Experience with cereal production and related agronomic practices is desired.

Miscellaneous:

• Reports to: Seed Production Coordinator
• Supervisory responsibilities: Temporary workers.

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Limagrain Field Seeds, with its international multi-crop LG brand is the global Feld Seeds division of Group Limagrain. Limagrain Field Seeds covers all continents with subsidiaries in over 40 countries and sales in 77 countries. Limagrain Field Seeds supplies LG branded seeds of Maize, Wheat, Sunflower, Winter Rape and other regional crops to all farmers large or small. A strong commitment to progress through technology ensures that plant variety improvements arrive continually from 84 research sites and are adapted for maximum local performance.

Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d'Allier plain, in the heart of Central France's Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of 2.522 billion euros in 2023-2024, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.

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