Robert Andrew Black purchased the property ‘Glenlea’ north west of Corowa in the riverina region of southern NSW in 1926 after moving south from Kingaroy in central Queensland. Robert and his family ran ‘Glenlea’ as a mixed farm and by the early 1930’s had become a supplier of quality seed grains for the local area. As new opportunities in seed production arose in the 1970s, particularly production and processing of pasture seeds, the business name Corowa seeds was registered by Robert Black’s grandson, Russell Black who by then owned ‘Glenlea’ with his wife Janet.

With a mixed farming system still in place, seed production opportunities continued to arise with production of a wide range of pasture seed, grass seeds, oil seeds, cereal grains, as well as grain legumes.

During this period of increased volume of seed production, an accredited seed cleaning facility was built and installed at Glenlea to not only cater for Corowa Seeds production but also cleaning a variety of seed from a large radius of southern NSW and Northern Victoria. With continued increases in volumes produced over time, an emphasis on 'in house' seed production and cleaning became more of a focus, in particular, Corowa Seeds prides itself in breeder’s seed multiplication of sub clover varieties.

In recent years Corowa Seeds has seen continued growth in production areas with the purchase of adjoining land and lease hold. Security of production has also been greatly increased with the installation and development of centre pivot irrigation supplied by both river and underground bores.

Corowa Seeds current management team comprises of Russell and Janet’s sons and their wives - Grant, Rowena, Anthony and Michelle Black.

As a member of Australian Seed federation, Corowa Seeds has a reputation amongst the seed industry as being one of continued involvement based on reliable production and supply of high quality agricultural seeds.
With an ideal climate, balance of soil types and security of production with irrigation, Corowa Seeds remains a valuable asset to seed companies seeking production of seeds to a high quality.