S&W Seed acquires alfalfa supplier to MENA

S & W Seed Comp any has acquired Imperial Valley Seeds, Inc., a marketer of nondormant alfalfa

seed varieties to the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. IV Seeds is the international marketing arm of Imperial Valley Milling, a California- based producer and processor of alfalfa seeds, established in 1921. The purchase price amounted to approximately $6 million.

IV Seeds sells a wide range of proprietary/non-proprietary, certified/ uncertified, coated / uncoated alfalfa seed into Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Algeria. The assets being acquired by S&W include three proprietary, non-dormant alfalfa seed varieties named Catalina, Saltana, and LaJolla.