PRT Growing Services Ltd. (PRT)  reached an agreement with the ownership group of Skimikin Nursery Ltd to acquire the company, effective July 1, 2017.

Following the Skimikin acquisition, PRT will grow over 210 million seedlings annually and operate a network of 15 forest seedling nurseries in the US and Canada, as well as Bionera, its short rotation woody crop subsidiary.

Skimikin Nursery is located in Tappen, British Columbia, Canada, approximately one hour north of PRT’s three other BC Okanagan region nurseries.

The nursery is comprised of a 100 acre (40 ha) site with approximately 260,000 square feet of greenhouse facilities and approximately 196,000 square feet of open compound growing space. Skimikin’s customer base comprises both forest industry customers and the BC Ministry of Forests.

The PRT group, through affiliates PRT USA Inc. and PRT Growing Services Ltd, is a forest seedling propagator and the largest producer of container-grown forest seedlings in North America. Following the Skimikin acquisition, PRT will grow over 210 million seedlings annually and operate a network of 15 forest seedling nurseries in the US and Canada, as well as Bionera, its short rotation woody crop subsidiary. For further information, please see PRT’s website at www.prt.com and Bionera’s at www.bionera.com.