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Seed Labs a Critical Link in Ensuring Cover Crop Quality

By John Dobberstein posted on August 19, 2017 | Posted in Soil Health

No-tillers can be better informed about their seed purchases by requesting and reading the testing lab’s ‘report of analysis’ and learning more about testing rules.

Pictured Above: HIGH STANDARDS. Seed is germinated during tests at Agri Seed Testing in Salem, Ore. In addition to reading the bag label, no-tillers should ask retailers for, and learn how to read, the “report of analysis” generated by labs when cover crop seed is tested. This is a better gauge of what’s in the product
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WHILE NO-TILLERS have long enjoyed the rigorous testing of corn, soybean and small grains seed they plant as cash…

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KEYWORDS agri seed testing assn. of official seed analysts international seed testing assn. minnesota crop improvement association society of commercial seed technologies
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John Dobberstein

John Dobberstein was the senior editor of No-Till Farmer magazine and the e-newsletter Dryland No-Tiller. He previously covered agriculture for the Tulsa World and worked for daily newspapers in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Joseph, Mich. He graduated with a B.A. in journalism and political science from Central Michigan University.

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