About Us
Seed companies often face significant challenges in finding solutions to their problems and in creating new innovative products that can be adopted by customers. The challenge mostly occurs because of the lack of R&D expertise or due to the existence of higher priorities. It is exactly on this research niche in which we dedicate our main efforts.
At Seedcraft, we believe that innovation should be constantly pursued. Rather than to simply be followers, one should find and build its own path to create innovative products and develop breakthrough technologies. To achieve that, we choose to take as guidance the best of all teachers: NATURE. Nature itself, in particular when it comes to biological systems, have proved to be the greatest source of cutting-edge ideas. In our products and services we definitively aimed at working with Nature to achieve such goals.
Its Founder
Fernando D. Goffman is the founder of Seedcraft. After his graduation as Agricultural Engineer at the University of Buenos Aires, he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany, in the area of Genetic Improvement and Analytical Chemistry of Plants. He subsequently did two post-doctorates in USA, working for the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (ARS-USDA) and then for the Michigan State University. Thereafter, he worked for 6 years for Enza Zaden BV in Enkhuizen, The Netherlands, a worldwide horticultural seed breeding company, as head of the Seed Physiology research group,
developing horticultural seed treatments and addressing seed quality issues, and then as manager of the R&D Department of Seed Technology at Ernst Benary, a company dedicated to bedding flower seeds, where he was in charge of multiple projects aiming at creating new seed products. During his career, he published a total of 28 research articles in recognised peer-reviewed scientific journals.