Seed Information and News
Scientists Propose New Type of Seed Bank -While an international seed bank in a Norwegian island has been gathering news about its agricultural collection, a group of U.S. scientists has just published an article outlining a different kind of seed bank, one that proposes the gathering of wild species––at intervals in the future––effectively capturing evolution in action. Click here to read the story.
ASTA annouced that Market Choices® has been suspended by the U.S. Seed Industry
Biotech/Genetically Engineered (GE) Seed InformationMore Farmers Choosing Biotech - click here to read a newsrelease from the ISAAA announcing the findings of their report for 2008.Click here to view a report on total world biotech acres.Read a MDA memo regarding brand vs variety posting on field cropsigns.
Revised Native Seed Fact SheetClick here to review
Did you know that the MDA has a Seed Advisory Group and that a MCPR Board member serves on this committee?
Did you know:
-that you are prohibited from offerring treated seed corn for sale for burning in corn burning stoves and that MPCA has taken action to regulate the sale of treated seed corn for corn burning stoves?
-that Minnesota requires the variety name on the seed label and requires brands be identified on the label by listing the word “brand” immediately following or directly beneath the brand name?
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