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

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    Ehmke Seed Will Have KS Bill Snyder This Fall!

    Vance and Louise Ehmke at Ehmke Seed are anxiously looking forward to wheat harvest this year and are even more excited to see how the new K-State wheat variety KS Bill Snyder does. The variety, named after the legendary KSU football coach, promises very high yields and other strong traits like drought hardiness. The Ehmkes…

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    Did the Weather Just Take a Turn for the Worse?

    Wheat and More…or LessBy Vance Ehmke3-27-2024Thanks to super optimum planting conditions last fall, many wheat farmers in the central and southern Plains now have some of the best-looking wheat stands in years. That was followed by a relatively wet winter which made the potential look even better. But did the weather just throw us a…

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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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