b'THE FUTURE IS NOW FOR SEED CROP CERTIFICATIONThe Canadian Seed Growers Association is expanding its SeedCert platform, creating the foundation for a digitalend-to-end system for seed crop certification.Marc ZienkiewiczDOUG MILLERand the Canadian Seed Growers Association (CSGA) certification team are busy these days. As the CSGA and branch boards put the finishing touches on a new Business Plan for 2021, staff are busy preparing for the coming season. With the unveiling of its next generation of modernization initiatives this spring, the Canadian Seed Growers Association will be taking another big step to towards a single digital window for seed certification services with the launch of a new digital crop certificate. Technology opens doors to new opportunities, and were going to use it to help drive the associa-tion forward, says Miller, managing director of certification and technology services for the CSGA. A lot of people in the industry already use our SeedCert platform. Seed growers, seed companies, plant breeders, inspection services, inspectors, and government officials. As we look towards the future, were looking at how we can leverage our SeedCert platform to provide value to new play-ers by making the same transformation tools and services currently applied to crop certification to the whole seed certification system. The Seed Synergy White Paper, released in 2018, lays out a set of proposals for the future of the seed sector in Canada. One of the key areas identified in the paper is the need to create a single window for all seed regulatory services, facilitated by information technology, and including a variety profile data manage-ment system for all commercial varieties so that end users can make informed decisions. Doug Miller is managing director of certification CSGA is on the road to realizing that vision,and technology services for the CSGA. Miller says.30GERMINATION.CAMARCH 2021'