b'PARTNER CONTENTSeed School is Filling an Important Niche By Morgan Webb, President, Seed Check Technologies1 2 The objective: Youll follow a seed sample around the lab even from before it gets here. Well go over: The ins and outs of seed sampling. How many samples do you need to take? How is that affected by seed lot size? How does WHAT HAPPENS IN a seed lab,one get uniformity in a seed lot? How do you get a good sample? and how does it help you buy, sell,From there, we work on what the lab does to break down the import and export seed, especiallysample into the portions needed for a germination or a purity test forage, turf and reclamation seed? or disease testing in the lab. After months of planning, Im The various functions of the documents that seed labs happy to announce Seed School,produce. What does it mean when you see numbers like Pure a new initiative designed to giveSeed, Other Crops, Weed Seeds, and Inert by Percentage? new skills to people who work with small-seeded crop kinds like How seed testing is guided by the Seeds Regulations and the forage and turf. Seeds Act, and how provincial regulations come into play.The course is provided via our How the Grade Tables work. A lot of seed sellers grade by Alberta lab, but will also take thedocuments only; they take a testing report and they grade it form of a road show where we canbased on federal regulations, when kinds being sold are not come to you, or possibly even dosupposed to be graded. There are a lot of regulations provincially it remotely in virtual format.for people who are looking at seed testing reports to see if seed meets provincial weed standards, whether its native to their area 3 or not, or if it should or should not be classified as a weed.Who is Seed School for? It caters to: ? Companies with recent turnover. Maybe you have a recent staff changeover or simply need a refresher about what it means when you have pure living seed, or what it means when an analyst does a pure seed test and figures out which seeds are viable/plantable. For more info, email me atExperienced industry players who can use some help understanding the process ofmorgan@seedcheck.net buying and selling seedlots, so that you can create the best contract possible. Thereor visit seedcheck.netmay be seeds that are regulated in Canada but they might not be fully sellable into one of the states in the U.S. This course helps you to understand regulations and seed testing in a way that you can get their seed lots into the hands of the right buyers. Facility auditors and those with an interest in policy. Seed School can help you better understand the implications and the importance of Seed Regulatory Modernization. Understanding our Seeds Act and Seeds Regulations will help facility auditors who want to understand clients needs better. People who clean seed. Seed School will help you understand shapes, sizes, textures, and potentially how your seed cleaning process can be improved. NOVEMBER 2022GERMINATION.CA 23'