Growing Quality Seeds for Quality Farmers
We have a passion for growing and cleaning quality seed and are always looking for the best products to supply to our customers.
About Wellspring Seeds
At Wellspring Seeds, we are committed to helping you find the best certified seed for your farm. As growers in your area for almost 50 years, we know what it takes to produce a successful crop and have the knowledge to help you do the same.
Located near New Norway, Alberta and serving Camrose County, we have a passion for growing and cleaning quality seed and are always looking for the best products to supply to our customers.
Featured Varieties
Wheat
- Strongest Straw CPSR available!
- Shorter, stronger straw than AAC Brandon
- Yield 104% of AAC Brandon
- Heavy test weight and large seed size
- Medium maturity (two days earlier than AAC Brandon)
- MR to FHB (“Good” rating)
- New high yielding CPS wheat that replaces Foremost
- Good straw strength
- Kernal size and quality is better than many varieties on the market
- #1 in SWS acres with over 50% market share
- Yield 106% of AC Andrew
- Midge tolerant
- The “Wheat King”!
- #1 CWRS in western Canada since 2016
- Short, strong straw
- MR to FHB, R to leaf rust, stem rust, MR to stripe rust and smut
- Very high yielding semidwarf CWRS
- Excellent lodging tolerance
- Intermediate resistance to FHB.
Barley
- Short, strong straw, well-suited to intensive management
- Grain yield 105% of CDC Austenson, 113% of CDC Copeland
- 14 cm shorter than CDC Austenson
- High yielding, strong strawed 2-row malting barley
- Large plump kernels and lower grain protein
- Viewed as a potential malt replacement for both AC Metcalfe and CDC Copeland
Faba Beans
219-16 is a small seeded, white flowered fababean with improved yield vs. CDC Snowdrop. This line yielded 97% of Snowbird and 110% of CDC Snowdrop in 7 years of testing in the Fababean Co-operative Trials in western Canada (Table 1). 219-16 has similar maturity and standability as both Snowbird and CDC Snowdrop and is shorter in height. The seeds are slighter larger than CDC Snowdrop but are 20% smaller than Snowbird. 219-16 is shorter than Snowbird and CDC Snowdrop.