A Little History ...

Keating Seed Farms Inc. is a family owned operation with roots in the Canadian pedigreed seed industry originating in 1951. Lyle Keating planted his first pedigreed seed crop in the spring of 1951 and in the fall of that year harvested 45 acres of Certified Redman wheat and 59 acres of Certified Exeter oats.

Since that time, Lyle Keating has produced over 43,000 acres of pedigreed wheat, over 16,000 acres of pedigreed barley and more than 6,500 acres of pedigreed canola. Mark Keating has served as director with the Manitoba Seed Growers' Association and was one of the first investors in both Canterra Seeds Ltd. and Quality Assured Seeds. Investment in these two leading seed distribution companies as well as continued membership in Secan Association provides Keating Seed Farms Inc. and its customers access to a wide range of the world's premier plant genetics today and for many years to come.

Together, Lyle and Mark Keating possess a combined 65 years and over one hundred thousand acres of successful pedigreed seed production. Their current operation consists of approximately 6750 cultivated acres, of which roughly 80% is devoted to the production of pedigreed seed of Canadian agriculture's most popular varieties of cereals, oilseeds and pulses.