Kentucky Blue Corn is a family owned business with 35 years experience developing unique colored corn genetics.

Our Story

The research and development program of Kentucky Blue Corn started in the summer of 1989 under the direction of owner / CEO Thomas Jones. At the time Tom was working as a plant breeder in the seed corn industry. Through his work he learned a great deal about food grade corn and the type of genetics commercial end-users needed to make specific products like corn chips and tortillas. While interacting with companies inside the Non-GMO food corn industry the need for a blue corn hybrid was expressed. So with the idea of a new niche market Tom started a blue corn breeding program on his own farm. After many years of trial and error selecting the best genetics forward his first blue corn hybrid was ready to go commercial. It had a dark indigo blue color along with the food grade corn qualities necessary for end-user products.

Modern Corn Genetics

Fast forward to modern day, with continued improvements the Non-GMO blue hybrids will yield 70-80% of yellow hybrids along with solid agronomics that farmers desire. We have maintained the dark indigo blue color and unique nutty flavor providing genetic consistency that delivers cooking and processing characteristics for a quality product.

Our goal is to provide a product line up capable of covering all the food corn industries needs while also putting yield and agronomics in the farmer fields. As our Non-GMO corn breeding program has evolved we are now offering pink , burgundy red and decorative corn varieties in our pipe line for seed production.

Our breeding program specializes in Non-GMO hybrids for the food corn industry. Our blue corn is currently used in products such as corn chips, tortillas, grits and bourbon. As our business has evolved we also now have pink, burgundy red, and decorative corn hybrids available for production.