Your premier wheat, triticale and rye seed dealer in western Kansas

ThunderBrand™
Triticale

We have award-winning varieties for both the hay and silage market as well as for the traditional graze out.

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cow grazing

ThunderGraze
Extra™

Specifically designed for grazing programs in the Central and Southern Plains.

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Certified Wheat

Top yielding and highest quality seed wheat varieties.

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Ehmke Seed is a family-owned seed company with a long history on the High Plains. Our farm goes back to the pioneer days in 1885 when the Ehmkes emigrated from Germany in search of a brighter future in Lane County, Kansas.

Four generations later in 1986, Vance Ehmke and his wife Louise saw an opportunity to grow their own certified seed wheat for themselves and local farmers. Wanting to try something different, Vance and Louise experimented with growing triticale seed and found it was a huge success with cattlemen and dairies across the High Plains. Now in the fifth generation, the tradition continues.

Ehmke Seed has grown to be one of the premier wheat, triticale and rye seed dealers in western Kansas. The focus at Ehmke Seed continues to be bringing high-quality seed and years of knowledge and expertise to our customers. That’s why nearly all of our seed is grown and sold right here on the Ehmke farm in west-central Kansas. Ehmke Seed grows top-performing wheat varieties for the central and southern plains, as well as world-class triticale and rye varieties for forage growers looking to get more out of their livestock investment.


“Adapt or Die”

Earl Butz, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

Blog and News

  • How Booms Die

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    How Booms Die

    Wheat and More…or LessBy Vance Ehmke3-2-24As they say, “In front of every silver lining, there’s a dark cloud”. The silver lining was the good years in farming of 2021 and 2022. And the dark cloud, well, that’s what’s staring us in the face right now. Indeed, the good years were good. After wheat prices soared…

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    Ehmke Seed triticale varieties sweep KSU forage tests

    In 2022-2023 KSU forage tests, all three Ehmke Seed triticale varieties scored in the top yield group with ThunderTall and ThunderTall ll topping the trials with dry matter production of 7439 pounds and 7354 pounds when harvested at soft dough. These were irrigated trials at the Garden City Experiment Station. In addition, ThunderCale V, a…

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    Will the Ogallala Go the Way of the Buffalo?

    Wheat and More…..or LessBy Vance Ehmke11-22-23The thing that very nearly led to the extinction of an entire species, the American Bison, was what they call, “The Tragedy of the Commons”. In other words, the 19th century Americans saw the bison as owned by everybody, but owned by no one. And the parallels between how we…

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