Beck’s seed corn plant prepares for ‘26 growing season

Facility quiet, empty now but will fill up with locally grown crop this fall

Beck’s plant manager Ryan Petr stands in front of a seed corn bagging/boxing machine in the huge processing facility near Phillips. Though empty now, the plant will begin to fill up with locally harvested seed corn starting in September.
Beck’s plant manager Ryan Petr stands in front of a seed corn bagging/boxing machine in the huge processing facility near Phillips. Though empty now, the plant will begin to fill up with locally harvested seed corn starting in September.

Six months into the change of ownership of the Beck’s seed corn plant at Phillips (formerly Syngenta), noticeable changes have taken place inside the vast complex of buildings along Highway 34, and more changes are in the offing for the future. When the ribbon cutting was held by officials of the family-owned seed corn company, based in Indiana, early last November, large boxes of Syngenta seed co…