the highest quality vegetable seeds with the best genetics

There’s nothing quite like that winning moment in the field – when years of trialling, testing, and refining lettuce genetics finally show real promise.

The Asian Seed Congress 2025, held in vibrant Mumbai, India, brought together seed professionals, researchers, and industry leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region.

This week, Lefroy Valley joined Townsend Seeds from New Zealand in Tasmania to review commercial fields of process peas – a cornerstone of Australia’s horticulture industry.

In September 2025, the Lefroy Valley teams from Australia and New Zealand embarked on a European trip to visit key breeding partners and view crop species suitable for production under Australasian climatic conditions.

Rojo is a cost-effective alternative to whole head multi leaf lettuce intended for machine harvest. Rojo is designed to be direct sown and machine harvested multiple times.

PV 1569 is a high yielding and versatile spinach with semi savoy paddle shape leaves and an attractive dark green colour.

Looking for a high quality, high yielding, large blocky capsicum which is an attractive shiny green and slow to turn red?

Contralto is a new bunching broccoli variety with excellent bolting tolerance. Contralto has tight heads with a closed habit and long stems.

New hybrid variety maturing in 81 days. HY 4944 excellent plant type boasts a stocky single stalk with an excellent disease package.

Viking is an early maturing parsnip, maturing in approx. 110 days, with vigorous foliage. Its long roots are slender wedge shaped that are well filled, usually approx. 27 cm.

Petra is an indeterminate roma tomato variety that will be a competitive roma in the market. Petra has out yielded other trials by between 15-20% more.

Sioux is a lightly savoy spinach, with very uniform oval to paddle shaped leaf. Colour is medium dark green. Sioux has shown good adaptability and is suited to both shoulder slots.

Cruiser is a high yielding coriander line with good quality. Cruiser has exceptional bolting tolerance, a dark green colour and strong aromatic flavour.

Blackjack is quickly becoming the industry standard. Blackjack shows excellent consistent performance under variable weather conditions.

NYALA is a medium late, short-day brown hybrid, which has strong tops and good field resistance against leaf disease.